Re: Wire strings
Urmawy unambigiously describes a psaltery with twisted copper-wire strings in the second half of the 13th cent. c.e. which does not seem to have been a novelty. What were the early clavichords (as in Zwolle) strung with? I would assume keyboard makers have established the early history of their strings? And btw., the problem of true strings isn't quite as big with an instrument without frets, i.e. only open strings, is it? I mean, for an Orpharion you would need far better strings than for a harp. Best wishes, danyel (Ps: The word Germany or Teutschland was used as a designation of the lands inhabited by German speaking people long before Germany became a state) - Original Message - From: Jon Murphy To: LUTE-LIST ; Roman Turovsky Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004 9:11 AM Subject: Re: Wire strings RT, your sources may be quite accurate as to the invention of drawing wire in Germany, but that doesn't say anything about other places. (...) Again you are looking at only European sources. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
Re: Not a lot people know that.....
American IS the equivalent for the rest of the world... greetings, danyel - Original Message -=20 From: Tony Chalkley=20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; Bernd Haegemann=20 Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 4:56 PM Subject: Re: Not a lot people know that. Dear Bernd, From: Bernd Haegemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S. Where did you take the statement from? The Handbook of Astrology? Maybe you ought to have explained that for East-Friesian French = people should read Belgian, English people should read Irish, Iranians - = Qazvinis. Maybe someone else can fill us in about what the Belgians, Irish and Qazvinis should read, as well as, perhaps the American equivalent. Tony --
Re: bamboo plectrum
The historic (Chinese) plectra preserved at the Shosoin (believed to be = from the T'ang dynasty) are made of (lacquered) sandalwood. The Korean = Hyon Gum (Kommungo) is played with a pen like bamboo mizrab. Best wishes, danyel - Original Message -=20 From: LGS-Europe=20 To: bill ; Lute net=20 Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 12:44 PM Subject: Re: bamboo plectrum i don't know how varied the list of japanese lute related = instruments are but do any of them - to your knowledge - use a bamboo plectrum? Ivory, tortoise shell, bone, or wood. In that order of quality, = desirability and price. Of course, modern substitutes of plastic are available, = too. I have some ivory koto picks, and a plastic as well as a wooden = 'practise' shamisen pick. These last ones are the size of ice scrapers for your = car windshield, not something you'd want to inflict on your lute. David --
