Dear Edgar, Thank you for your posting. What means "near Vienna"? I am living IN Vienna. I also have a SCRIBD account and I started to provide copies of BL manuscripts from Vienna. This alone is a major source of pieces.
In Vienna, we are only a handful lute players. I do know Mr. Rainer Waldeck a very nice person (ex-professional) where I started to take regular lessons. Prof. Contini is teaching at the Conservatorium, is very helpful too. Only by name I know Mr. Hubert Hoffmann. This is it for the moment. Do you know that this May we will host the Lute Festival of the DLG in Vienna? Why not meet sooner or later? Kind regards, Bernhard Fischer biotechconsult...@aon.at Vienna, Austria -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] Im Auftrag von Edgar Aichinger Gesendet: Montag, 13. Februar 2012 11:56 An: baroque-lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Betreff: [BAROQUE-LUTE] BL Transcription of Tropico by M. Ponce Hello, after years of silently reading this list I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Edgar Aichinger, I'm an amateur self-tought lute player living near Vienna, Austria. I started with guitar at age of 14, back in the seventies and always felt attracted by renaissance and baroque music, so when i got the chance to buy a second hand 10 course lute made by (Hans Hermann Herb, Erlangen 1979) around 1994, I just had to do it. After some years playing ren. tuning i changed strings and stayed with d-minor from then on. The lute is a bit of a special case, according to viennese luthier Nupi Jenner it is built like a baroque lute (curved fretboard) but lacks some typical attributes. E.g. the pegbox doesn't have the typical decorated jigsawed coverplate at the back side, the neck-body joint is at fret 9, not 10. and it has only 10 courses! ;) Nupi had to open it to repair a crack in the belly, and while doing so he found out that the neck joint is done in a very unusual way. Well after all it has been built before the big early music boom... Well anyway, I'd like to express my gratitude for many hours of interesting reading, links to facsimiles and other sources for music being posted here. As an attempt to give something back to the community (being an open-source guy that's natural thinking for me) I want to let you know that I posted my BL transcription of a guitar solo piece by Manuel Ponce, Tropico, to my scribd page. I spent a couple of months in Mexico City back in Winter 1996/7, living in a musician's household, and brought with me copies of autographs by Ponce, from a book I found there. I hope some of you find this interesting and I'm all ears if anyone has suggestions on improving the transcription. I can also post the cripps lutetab source, and maybe also a - mediocre - recording by myself if someone is interested. Here's the link: http://www.scribd.com/edogawa23/d/81356266-tropico-a4 Eventually some more music will follow, I'll keep you informed. Greetings, Edgar -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
