Re: viola da gamba [OT]

2005-03-15 Thread Roger E. Blumberg
> From: "Bernd Haegemann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 00:03:44 +0100 > To: "Lutelist" > Subject: viola da gamba [OT] > > dear lutenetters, > > on sunday I visited a little castle in Westfalia where surprisingly I found a > a small exposition room with musical instruments. (No

viola da gamba [OT]

2005-03-15 Thread Bernd Haegemann
dear lutenetters, on sunday I visited a little castle in Westfalia where surprisingly I found a a small exposition room with musical instruments. (No lute, though.) But something that I would think is a viola da gamba (violoncello size), 7 strings, very nicely decorated with ivory and mother of p

lute STILL for sale, long island area, 8c venere model, plain

2005-03-15 Thread demery
My three original respondants all bowed out without seeing the instrument, its a good one folks, honest :-/ NO CASE NO CASE NO CASE NO PHOTOS NO PHOTOS NO PHOTOS MADE BY: Black Bird Music 8c, Venere style, 59 cm string length, gut stringing at a=440 is possible. Currently _strung_ in nylon, ne

Re: Greensleeves

2005-03-15 Thread Peter Nightingale
And then there is "one" (whatever the meaning of "one" might be) by Francis Cutting -- Julian Bream plays it on "The Woods so Wild" sandwiched between "da-di-da didi-da"s; it's in the Noad Renaissance guitar book ... Peter. On 15 Mar 2005, "Mathias Rösel" wrote: > > I just know the one that 'eve

Re: Greensleeves (fwd)

2005-03-15 Thread "Mathias Rösel"
the second one should read 3 1 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 3 1 2 2 2 2 43 1 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 e f e e | d b g a b | c b c c | h g# E || e f e e | d b g a b | c b a g# 1 1 11 1 2 2 2 a b g# | a a e c# a As I said, both are trebles for the passamezzo ground that was popular aroun

Re: Greensleeves

2005-03-15 Thread Mathias Rösel
> I just know the one that 'everyone' plays, da-di-da didi-da di da, > didi-da-di-da didi-da-di-da, etc., that one. I suppose you think of 2 4 2 3 1 2 4 2 4 2 3 1 2 2 2 2 4 2 4 a | c d | e f e | d b | g | a b c | d e c | b g# |E (1 = quaver, 2 = crotchet, 3 = dotted crotch

Re: Greensleeves

2005-03-15 Thread Stephen Fryer
Roman Turovsky wrote: > His name was A(dalbert?) Noney-Moose. He had a farm where Rayne's Park now > stands. And here I thought it was Hey Nonny Mouse, but maybe that was the other one? ;-) More seriously, as far as I know the first reference is in the Stationers Register for 1580. There is a

Greensleeves

2005-03-15 Thread RichardTomBeck
Hi Mathias, That there are two versions is also news to me. I just know the one that 'everyone' plays, da-di-da didi-da di da, didi-da-di-da didi-da-di-da, etc., that one. If there are two versions, who wrote them, or are they both, as RT wittily suggests, anon? Cheers Tom Beck -- To get on

Re: Greensleeves

2005-03-15 Thread Mathias Rösel
> I do have a question, the old chestnut, I know, but is it known who wrote > Greensleeves? please specify which one. I've across at least two different tunes or, rather, grounds which bore that name. -- Cheers, Mathias -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartm

Re: Greensleeves

2005-03-15 Thread Roman Turovsky
> > I do have a question, the old chestnut, I know, but is it known who wrote > Greensleeves? Some say Henry VIII, another says Dowland (that one was new to > me, > not that it signifies a great deal), and other countless candidates have been > named. I've looked in Grove, on the web, and asked a

Re: Hoffmann Mandora/Gallichon

2005-03-15 Thread "Mathias Rösel"
>> My view is that it is most likely a guitar guitars have shallow bodies, by definition, or so I'm told. Whatsoever this is, it is not a guitar. >> (or rather late 19thC german lute/guitar) conversion direct from a lute. wandervogel lutes (if that is what you meant to say) have single strings,

Greensleeves

2005-03-15 Thread RichardTomBeck
Dear Collected Wisdom, I turn to you once again after long silence, mainly dictated by my total ignorance of much of what you talk about. I found the 'little finger' discussion most interesting, as I have never come to terms with using it, my fingers simply being too short to stretch as requir

Re: Hoffmann Mandora/Gallichon

2005-03-15 Thread Roman Turovsky
> My view is that it is most likely a guitar (or rather late 19thC german > lute/guitar) conversion direct from a lute. There are numerous examples of > 18thC Colachons/mandoras (see Gill et als) and leaving aside the obvious > guitar conversion features (eg bridge, rose) it looks pretty atypical (

Re: Hoffmann Mandora/Gallichon

2005-03-15 Thread Martyn Hodgson
My view is that it is most likely a guitar (or rather late 19thC german lute/guitar) conversion direct from a lute. There are numerous examples of 18thC Colachons/mandoras (see Gill et als) and leaving aside the obvious guitar conversion features (eg bridge, rose) it looks pretty atypical (eg

Antwort: Re: 18 th century chamber music

2005-03-15 Thread thomas . schall
I don't know about omi but most of it is edited by the german publisher Trekel who have a web page. It's divided into several publications. All of them edited by Joachim Domning. (among them the complete works by Hagen, Falckenhagen which are omited from the augsburg collction and he also sep

Re: 18 th century chamber music

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Thames
A few people have asked me about the 18th century chamber music. Von Huene charges $60.00 for it, but Steve at OMI facsimiles charges $48.00. Heres the link http://www.omifacsimiles.com/ BTW, Roman whats in the Augsburg MS. Does OMI carry it? Michael Thames www.ThamesClassicalGuitars.com

Re: Bent peg box

2005-03-15 Thread Dr. Marion Ceruti
Dear Michael, Thank you for posting. Please see comments below. Best regards, Marion -Original Message- From: Michael Thames <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Mar 15, 2005 6:34 AM To: "Dr. Marion Ceruti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Lute List Subject: Re: Bent peg box >Michael >Were the old swan n

Re: Bent peg box

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Thames
>Michael >Were the old swan necks repaired or left in their >deformed >state, assuming it is possible to tell this from looking at >it? Marion, I personally drew up some plans of the Yale Jauch, and noticed the extension was in absolute perfect playable condition. There were other problem

4 Sermisy intabulations

2005-03-15 Thread Taco Walstra
Some nice new pieces on my website: 4 different intabulations of a song by Claude de Sermisy by da crema, newsiedler, phalese and waissel. Original song has also been included. This must have been a hitparade piece in the 16th century. Pieces are in the open abctab format and in postscript. http