Not at all, David. I shouldn't be given any credit for work Alex has done. Carry on and enjoy.
I do have Alex's little book. It's very useful for those of us with an interest in baroque-era mandolins. I think you may be able to order it directly from him: <http://www.mandolineorkest.nl/informatie/enboek.htm>. I don't even read Dutch, and I think the visual chronology and instrument measurements are worth the price alone. Unfortunately to the thread at hand, the book has nothing at all to do with fabricating plectra of quills. Peripheral, but for those with an interest more modern incarnations of functionally archlute-like-thingies, Alex also has some nice articles in the Italian journal GuitArt and elsewhere on romantic-era guitars with sub-bass diapasons. Best, Eugene At 09:00 AM 7/1/2008, LGS-Europe wrote: >>>I found these pictures and text explaining how to split a feather and >>>make one of the resulting halves of the tip (the bit stuck into the >>>bird) into a plectrum, much like a pen, very instructive: >>> >>>http://www.mandolincafe.net/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?s=263874652887a855b1a3a0ff8f6a6f14;act=ST;f=6;t=15088 >> >>Remarkable. That page looks identical to the one I e-mailed to the list >>back at the beginning of June...because it is. That set of instructions >>was crafted by a fellow .nl-er, David: Alex Timmerman in Zwolle. > >Sorry, I should have said it was you who pointed me to Alex' instructions, >but I had deleted your mail, just kept the page. > >Alex Timmermans made a small booklet showing of (his?) collection of >mandolines and guitar in nice pictures: >De Mandoline en de Gitaar door de eeuwen heen >Originele Historische Instrumenten. >AETii-producties >Postbus 1040 >8001BA Zwolle >ISBN: 90-9007969-6 > >Obscure publisher, but http://www.saulbgroen.nl/ can order it for you and >it costs next to nothing. > >David > > >**************************** >David van Ooijen >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >www.davidvanooijen.nl >**************************** > To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
