I just received my collection of all the Lute Society Journals and
have started my reading with the first one, 1960. This is going to
seriously cut into my TV time.
In 'Historical Notes' by J.D. Roberts in that first journal, there is
a description of the strings of Zaryab's lute ca. 800 A.D.
for fifty years, but always at the neck end,
never had a good barre - that would seem to militate toward good lute
practice).
The lowered tension of a lute may also make it seem easier to play.
The lute definitely has it's difficulties though!
Let us know if you build that kit, okay?
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Ed Durbrow
was the earliest cited.
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Nylgut should be slightly
thinker than gut in order to obtain the same tension. What are your
experiences about this?
Speaking of Nylgut, how long are people using them for before they
need to be changed?
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a lot better than meeting Scratch at the Crossroads.
What does this mean?
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?
Because it forms a tritone with F, possibly?
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like to get his
recommendations about total kg tension. Any recommendations for
stringing this baby? It's 51 cm. I'm thinking all gut or all Nylgut.
But what to do about the basses?
cheers,
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.. you will not regret them.
Sounds good. What is a Pistoy, anyway? What would go well with a
Pistoy for the octave pair? How high can you use them? 5th course
okay? I want to string up this new 51cm lute I got.
cheers,
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--
there.
All the words of the song in modern English and a transcript of the
version in Lbl Add 15117 were provided by me on 20th November 2001.
The following day I provided the words as sung by Desdemona in
_Othello_, Act 4, Scene 3, line 41 onwards.
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they end
up, they end up being very snug.
Is it normal that the top course is single?
Yes, but there were some that had double 1st course. Much rarer though.
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the lute loose though, because
it is obviously a big, positive part of your life. Your contributions
on the list have always been positive but too infrequent, in my book.
cheers,
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saying he filed the right side of the
nail down like many people playing both lute and guitar do? How else
can you play with nails on the guitar and without them on the lute?
TIA
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to system X. Most of the bugs have been worked
out, it's incredibly stable and I
don't have to reboot into system 9 for anything anymore other than
the occasional older game for my
younger kids.
This is all getting too geeky for me: Uncompress uncompressed files,
Ghost script, etc.
cheers,
--
Ed
and sit still for it.
It depended on the court. Francesco da Milano, for example, left no
dances, only intabulations and fantasies. His audience was the pope.
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I wonder what the heck it is.
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This the painting that has the broken string. The octave of the fouth
is hanging down. You can barely see it in main picture. Too bad the
close up shots don't show it. Any guesses as to what the symbolism of
that is?
On my links page, I have a list of all the sites that I know about
that have tablature for download.
http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/links.html
cheers,
if anyone can
send me a bit of French notation for Renaissance tune I'd appreciate it.
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the stage, it was easy
to follow, and with the action on stage, I never felt bored with the
recitative as I did trying to listen to the CD.
Yeah, the music is not too shabby either. :-)
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club back in the early
70s. Maybe he thought fans are getting more and more wacko these days
and decided to spring for the kevlar. :-)
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I've had Gamut gut strings on my A lute for a week or two now,
although I haven't played them everyday. My first impression is that
they sound different from nylgut and nylon (of course) and the
overspuns especially do. In fact they sound very nice.
They are very nice for ornaments because
Hello everybody, my name´s Leonardo and I´m from Brazil.
I play classical guitar and I´d like to know more about the lute, can you
please tell me some good books about the subject?
Thank you!
History of the Lute by D. A. Smith. http://www.mclasen.com/LuteHistory/
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which can be viewed as a graphic
representation (a scrolling strip chart) or a readout of MM speeds
per beat.
cheers,
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becoming a member though.
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around and tried to tie it. It kept breaking at the knot I
made until now it is too short to make it from bridge to nut without
the knot. I tried several different knots always cauterizing the left
over ends. Is there a special knot that works in this situation?
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http
should put the string through about 2 inches, loop it once around
the main part of the string then wrap the short end around the string
segment over the bridge.
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a master class.
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http://www.pyramidstrings.com/st-history.html
Pyramid strings for Historical Bowed and Plucked Stringed Instruments
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--
is there any site with a description of the
several right hand techniques?
I recommend: http://www.xs4all.nl/~amarin/Page1.html Alfonso
Marin's collection of lute related pictures. A picture is worth a
thousand words.
cheers,
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Ed Durbrow
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on the B lute.
I hope that is comprehensible. It's hard to explain.
cheers,
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a
beatiful tone and the thumb and forefinger are playing adjacent
strings on the B lute.
I hope that is comprehensible. It's hard to explain.
cheers,
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the depictions? I see a lot of pictures that look suspiciously
like strumming. As RT noted there are many instances where the little
finger is not on the belly.
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issue.
Vance Wood.
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From: Ed Durbrow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Vance Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]; lute list [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 5:07 AM
Subject: Re: The Right Hand Revisited
I have found some strong advantages to playing the thumb out
that doesn't make sense in
the lute world and iconography. I hope others will chime in on this
thread.
cheers,
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do you download the whole folder? The list has 110 pics in
it. http://www.craigmcfeely.force9.co.uk/images.html
TIA
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Saitama, Japan
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Does anyone have any thoughts about the ornaments in the Board
manuscript? There is a plus sign (+) and a dot to the side of a note
that I'm encountering in Sellngers Rounde. I feel that the + can be a
mordant or backfall from below. It is especially effective as a
backfall when you do it like
? Can you say briefly how you came to a
conclusion? Like me, circumstantial musical evidence or are there
actual sources that talk about it?
cheers,
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Ed Durbrow
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examples of scale studies.
Try Francesco's La Campagna. :-) Or, at a beginner level: Ein gut
preambel by H. Newsidler published by the Lute Society. Honestly,
there are hundreds of scales built into pieces. Why not just take
those extracts and practice them? Or, make your own up?
cheers,
--
Ed
there is legal ivory about. I suppose enough ivory
for a lute back would not be cheap no matter what the source. I was
wondering about the brittleness also. Lute ribs have quite a bend to
them. I wonder if mammoth ivory would be too brittle.
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much did it add to the cost
as opposed to a more standard rib material? Where do luthiers get
ivory?
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the
'thumb-inside' position?
Speed and tone. I'm sure others will chime in with lots of pointers.
Welcome aboard!
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--
Are there any good folias for the Baroque lute?
was all the rage a few years back. Even famous
lutenists were using it. I bought a spool of it and thought it
sucked. I gave it away. But like you said, for practice, it works.
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? You'll have
to slide the fret back to loosen it, but that is no big deal.
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I'm now looking
for the tab for it. So far, I've just found a transfusion for 10
course lute on Wayne Cripps' site.
Thanks,
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is not too difficult.
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there is always one awkward bit in every piece.
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From Stan Beuten's website http://www.lutebooks.com/:
The Method for the Renaissance Lute sold more than 20,000 copies
If most of those buyers were lutenists, then the size of the lute
world is bigger than I thought.
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--
the
model how to place his fingers. It may take me a while to incorporate
this new hand position. :-)
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in Stewart's posts.
=46our new words and I haven't even gotten to any posts by Roman yet!
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--
. Graphic
representations are very interesting because it allows one to compose
in the same manner as one would manipulate data in a computer
painting or drawing program, that is: duplicate, paste, drag,
shorten, expand or otherwise mangle with a mouse.
cheers,
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Saitama, Japan
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Did anyone hear Last weekend's Prairie Home Companion? Randy Newman
said he now plays lute and can play all this crap (his songs) on
lute. I'd like to hear that!
At 02:40 PM 12/10/2003 +0100, Spring, aus dem, Rainer
RSpringausdemee.toshiba.de wrote: How would you write 3 versus 5 in
tablature? I couldn't resist :)
Just an idea, but how about different colored inks?
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.
Kind of goes over my head. What was the joke?
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to Weiss
than Bach, IMHO so they were right to go with Weiss rather than Bach.
Jeez, fooling that many people, they could have been politicians.
cheers,
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Saitama, Japan
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been in the 2002 Lute Society Journal because I
couldn't find it in the index for the Journals at the LuteSoc website
and that only goes up to 2001. It made a strong case for the mandora
for Vivaldi concertos and ensemble works.
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,
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A killer unit, a
band director's dream machine.
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--
I use Korg AT1. It permits some calibration, but my 13c sounds best at 440.
I was just wondering if people tune their Baroque lutes at 440. How
many other people do? How many at a lower pitch?
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in a way that the notes just want to spring out.
The tension is part of the delicacy and fragility.
cheers,
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/lutenist/
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Here is a photo: http://www.kotoworld.com/koto.html Of course I'm
talking about something much smaller.
Could you take a digital photo and show us? I think I've got the
idea, but seeing it would explain everything.
Michael.
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I wonder if you could make
the
music just fine thank you and causes an error. Any thougths?
You really get to the crux of it with this one. I don't think you
could ask a more important question. I think the way you stated the
question contains an answer. You must remain focused on the task at
hand.
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of copper wound Savarez. I suspect they
are going to be very stable.
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?
cheers,
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hope no one followed what I said in my previous email.
I define the position with a very smooth Swiss file (Needle file). Then
polish it with a piece of thin cord (about the same as the string diameter)
with a spot of metal-polish.
Would a plain gut or nylon string work as a cord here?
--
Ed
Then there is the simplest, but ugly, solution of slipping a bit of paper
under the string,
Why should that be ugly, if the paper is exactly the same size as the
bottom of the nut?
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,
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.
10. In the case of theft, you might benefit from a suggestion in the
string pouch that the finder take the instrument to a clergyman, and not
waste his time trying to sell it at a pawn shop.
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.
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--
where the thumb is
almost a drone (like the seventh course on a seven course lute - sort of).
How is the 7th course on the lute like a drone?
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with a bit of feather stem coming out of the
middle of the tip. Think about doing didillo strokes with that!
The fact that there is a possibility that Milano used thimbles would
be reason enough to try them IMHO. Who knows what we could learn?
cheers,
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a trio section in a minuet
trio, a consequent phrase in a musical sentence? What makes great
art is a sense of it being 'right', a sense of inevitability. IMHO.
cheers,
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Ed Durbrow
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harmonic of G is D, so you could also mute the D courses.
Mutes can be made of wedges cut from clothespins, rubber bands, and glue.
Or use your fingers to mute.
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Saitama, Japan
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I've been looking at variations on Une Jeune Fillette. The tab looks
like it had been cut up, pasted together and then photocopied in
order to eliminate a notation transcription and fit the tab onto two
pages. The typesetting looks like the Poulton book. I'm sure I got
this from my old
the composition was complete, ink it
into a manuscript (or intabulate it?).
arthur
I had heard about slates, but I didn't know they were wax. I wonder
what they wrote on them with. I'm assuming they worked out their
compositions in a kind of score and then copied them to part books.
cheers,
--
Ed
reference to
Hildegard von Bingen, I couldn't find anything related to music at
these sites, though.
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--
a whole step below the 6th course. It contains some
lovely variations with a nice running bass line in the latter part of
the piece.
Thanks,
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Thank you Richard and Rainer. Wow, many versions. Now this is getting
interesting. I'd still like to determin which one I have.Let me
describe this a bit more and see if you know which version it is. I'm
traveling now in the States and don't have all my music to compare it
to, but it is in
string octave to fill it in.
cheers,
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that the holes were too small for big
thick bass strings, nicht wahr?
cheers,
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--
I never did figure out which version of Une jeune fillette I have.
Being unfamiliar with the gazillion concordances in Rainer's
database, I have no idea which one it could be. I've determined that
I am probably missing 38 measures or more. It seems like I have the
beginning and ending pages
David,
I have a continuo question (or two):
It might be edifying to see how Robert Dowland realized it. You
probably have already done that, but I mention it just in case you
haven't.
cheers,
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Ed Durbrow
currently in Grass Valley, CA USA
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You thought ol' what's his name of the historical soc had a big library!
Gary:
Well, it might be interesting, but he bequeathed all the really valuable
things to the Newberry Library. This is probably the stuff they didn't
want.
Daniel Heiman
On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 04:01:58 -0500 Gary Digman
, who's done it before and ends up w/ minimum buzzing. It is
a
presentation I certainly wouldn't want to miss. Heck, I'll even offer my
beastie as teaching fodder.
cheers,
Sean
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I wonder how often the little motif: note-up a semitone-down a
semitone pops up in Francesco's music. I wonder if perhaps it's his
riff in the same sense that the descending tetrachord is Dowland's
riff.
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Roman,
Happy to oblige:
http://cbsr26.ucr.edu/wlkfiles/Publications/UnderThisStoneLies.png -
What kind of file ends in .png? What's needed to open them?
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XVIth century and =
early XVIIth.
Thanks very much.
Saludos from Sevilla,
Ariel.
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Ed Durbrow
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...
Tim Mills
Denver
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but not halfway into the show.
Sean
Why not pre-stretch a string or two for emergencies and keep them in the case?
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on hand then. I just keep all my
old strings. But of course the treble is the one that usually breaks
and needs to be on hand and that's the one I never have.
cheers,
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said I should roll it, and he suggested the beat was somewhere in
the middle (in that particular case). Of course, we are talking about
solo music.
cheers,
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Ed Durbrow
Saitama, Japan
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can I sell all these
recordings from the 60s and 70s I have that are
taking up space in my small house? Led Zeppelin
anyone?
cheers,
--
Ed Durbrow
Saitama, Japan
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. It got me to thinking, I wonder if
those signs that look like fermatas in Dalza are really just a way to
notate a breve. That's more or less the way I've always played them.
I don't think I've ever come across a longa in tab.
cheers,
--
Ed Durbrow
Saitama, Japan
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for punishment in the musical humor
department: http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/musicjokes.html
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Saitama, Japan
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BTW, there is a nice CD of music from the Bottegari-Lutebook on the
Tactus label: TC 552701 by Gian Luca Lastaioli and Santina Tomasello.
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to the Bacheler one?
Who arranged the Besard 1603, Jacobus? (not bad...)
Sugestions from the cognoscenti are most welcome!
Best Regards
Gran
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about this-
Didn't we have a similar discussion a few months ago? I remember
being inspired to hum into my lute to find the resonant pitch.
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of mensuration signs that
have no proportion.
My two yen.
cheers,
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Ed Durbrow
Saitama, Japan
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Has anyone, who owns a Mac, fooled around with Melody Assistant? I'm
particularly interested in it's tab usability. It does have a lute
tab staff option.
TIA
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Ed Durbrow
Saitama, Japan
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'
newslist. They have a web site, I believe, but we need an accurate name to
find it.
Why don't you use Fronimo or Wayne's program? Also I'll write to Mike
Peterson he has a Mac, too.
Best regards, Arthur.
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