[LUTE] Re: colliding strings

2011-07-22 Thread Peter Nightingale
Ed, Suzanne, Roman, Alexander, ...

Thanks for your suggestions.  I remain confused by colliding strings and 
ditto realities.

I cannot believe that Joel van Lennep would make an instrument with the 
design flaws your comments imply.  Could it be that my lute does not live 
up to your expectations, because it is a 14 course archlute.  (BTW, 
Suzanne seems to have a space problem too.) The courses have to be close 
together for the instrument to be playable, it would seem.  The distance 
between the string of the 6th and 7th courses is is roughly 4mm, 8mm, and 
4mm.  If pairs of the individual courses were to be 5mm apart, this would 
become 5mm, 6mm, 5mm.  It would introduce a 6.5th course, a revolutionary 
design!  My guess is that the compromise that was made tries to avoid the 
the clanging disaster by creating more space at the nut.  Actually, there 
is more: the octave strings are slightly closer to the sound board than 
the fundamentals in both courses.

Thanks again,
Peter.

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[LUTE] Re: colliding strings

2011-07-22 Thread Suzanne Angevine



I cannot believe that Joel van Lennep would make an instrument with the
design flaws your comments imply.  Could it be that my lute does not live
up to your expectations, because it is a 14 course archlute.  (BTW,
Suzanne seems to have a space problem too.) The courses have to be close
together for the instrument to be playable, it would seem.  The distance
between the string of the 6th and 7th courses is is roughly 4mm, 8mm, and
4mm.  If pairs of the individual courses were to be 5mm apart, this would
become 5mm, 6mm, 5mm.  It would introduce a 6.5th course, a revolutionary
design!  My guess is that the compromise that was made tries to avoid the
the clanging disaster by creating more space at the nut.  Actually, there
is more: the octave strings are slightly closer to the sound board than
the fundamentals in both courses.


My 10 course alto lute is 50 cm and very small in the bowl.  This limits 
the possible length of the bridge.  My bass courses also tend to have 
the strings at about 4mm, but they would not all fit if the strings were 
moved farther apart.  So in my case, the compromise was made on this 
instrument to put the strings closer than optimal to make them *fit*. 
That's what happens when you have a small 10 course alto.  So perhaps 
your 14 course archlute has similar size and geometry constraints.


But it does seem like the spacing at the nut could be done as you like. 
 Mine was not optimal at first either, but I have moved things around 
to much closer to right.  At least that problem was sort of fixable.


Suzanne



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[LUTE] Re: colliding strings

2011-07-22 Thread Ed Durbrow
   You have articulated the conundrum. Joel van Lennep is probably basing
   his instruments on historical instruments. Spacing on historical
   instruments is sometimes impossible for us moderns. We might
   collectively be missing something. Either they had some string
   technology we are not aware of or they liked twang or they played very
   lightly near the bridge. Who knows?

   I'll dig out my archlute and see what the spacing is. Again, I had the
   bridge re-drilled on it to give me more space on the double courses.
   On Jul 22, 2011, at 11:32 PM, Peter Nightingale wrote:

   Ed, Suzanne, Roman, Alexander, ...
   Thanks for your suggestions.  I remain confused by colliding strings
   and
   ditto realities.
   I cannot believe that Joel van Lennep would make an instrument with the
   design flaws your comments imply.  Could it be that my lute does not
   live
   up to your expectations, because it is a 14 course archlute.  (BTW,
   Suzanne seems to have a space problem too.) The courses have to be
   close
   together for the instrument to be playable, it would seem.  The
   distance
   between the string of the 6th and 7th courses is is roughly 4mm, 8mm,
   and
   4mm.  If pairs of the individual courses were to be 5mm apart, this
   would
   become 5mm, 6mm, 5mm.  It would introduce a 6.5th course, a
   revolutionary
   design!  My guess is that the compromise that was made tries to avoid
   the
   the clanging disaster by creating more space at the nut.  Actually,
   there
   is more: the octave strings are slightly closer to the sound board than
   the fundamentals in both courses.
   Thanks again,
   Peter.
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   (Albert Einstein)
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[LUTE] Re: colliding strings

2011-07-22 Thread Alexander Batov

Hi Peter,

I don't thinks your maker did anything wrong, not at all. I'm guessing 
of course but it looks like he simply replicated the sting spacing 
(well, at least on the bridge, I'm not so sure about the nut ...) from 
the bridge(s) of one of the original archlute or theorbo (a few of those 
have indeed survived with their original bridges intact). If this is the 
case, the distance between individual strings in courses as little as 
4.0 mm and even less would be 'fairly' normal. To give just one, rather 
'extreme' example: the original bridge of a theorbo by Martinus Kaiser 
(E.24, Musee de la Musique, Paris) has about 3.3 - 3.5 mm between the 
strings of the 6th course; and this is for the string length at c. 88.5 
cm! I don't know what the string length of your archlute is but if it 
is, say, within 57 - 64 cm, then 4 mm would be about right (perhaps even 
on a wider side!) by the 'old standards'. So again, with such close 
spacing, a lot depends on where you pluck the strings ... Although not 
an archlute but perhaps something like this would work:


http://www.klassiskgitar.net/unknown17-portraitofalut.html

Good luck!

Alexander

On 22/07/2011 15:32, Peter Nightingale wrote:

Ed, Suzanne, Roman, Alexander, ...

Thanks for your suggestions.  I remain confused by colliding strings and
ditto realities.

I cannot believe that Joel van Lennep would make an instrument with the
design flaws your comments imply.  Could it be that my lute does not live
up to your expectations, because it is a 14 course archlute.  (BTW,
Suzanne seems to have a space problem too.) The courses have to be close
together for the instrument to be playable, it would seem.  The distance
between the string of the 6th and 7th courses is is roughly 4mm, 8mm, and
4mm.  If pairs of the individual courses were to be 5mm apart, this would
become 5mm, 6mm, 5mm.  It would introduce a 6.5th course, a revolutionary
design!  My guess is that the compromise that was made tries to avoid the
the clanging disaster by creating more space at the nut.  Actually, there
is more: the octave strings are slightly closer to the sound board than
the fundamentals in both courses.

Thanks again,
Peter.

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punishment and hope of reward after death.
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[LUTE] Re: colliding strings

2011-07-22 Thread Rockford Mjos
On all of these dimensions, are people talking about distances of  
string center to string center (which is how I understand these type  
of measurements)? Or might some people be measuring the "gap" between  
the string "edges"?


Last night I stumbled across notes I had taken from a 1979 LSA class  
with Paul O'Dette. One of the notes from the class read:
"One of the main causes of slapping strings is setting strings in  
motion at diff. times. and _not_ of force."


-- R

On Jul 22, 2011, at 9:32 AM, Peter Nightingale wrote:


Ed, Suzanne, Roman, Alexander, ...

Thanks for your suggestions.  I remain confused by colliding  
strings and

ditto realities.

I cannot believe that Joel van Lennep would make an instrument with  
the
design flaws your comments imply.  Could it be that my lute does  
not live

up to your expectations, because it is a 14 course archlute.  (BTW,
Suzanne seems to have a space problem too.) The courses have to be  
close
together for the instrument to be playable, it would seem.  The  
distance
between the string of the 6th and 7th courses is is roughly 4mm,  
8mm, and
4mm.  If pairs of the individual courses were to be 5mm apart, this  
would
become 5mm, 6mm, 5mm.  It would introduce a 6.5th course, a  
revolutionary
design!  My guess is that the compromise that was made tries to  
avoid the
the clanging disaster by creating more space at the nut.  Actually,  
there
is more: the octave strings are slightly closer to the sound board  
than

the fundamentals in both courses.

Thanks again,
Peter.

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fear of

punishment and hope of reward after death.
(Albert Einstein)
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[LUTE] Re: colliding strings

2011-07-22 Thread David Smith
   If the strings are slightly out of tune with each other, it has the
   same effect as starting them at different times since they will change
   in and out of phase over time.

   On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Rockford Mjos <[1]rm...@comcast.net>
   wrote:

 On all of these dimensions, are people talking about distances of
 string center to string center (which is how I understand these type
 of measurements)? Or might some people be measuring the "gap"
 between the string "edges"?
 Last night I stumbled across notes I had taken from a 1979 LSA class
 with Paul O'Dette. One of the notes from the class read:
 "One of the main causes of slapping strings is setting strings in
 motion at diff. times. and _not_ of force."
 -- R

   On Jul 22, 2011, at 9:32 AM, Peter Nightingale wrote:

 Ed, Suzanne, Roman, Alexander, ...
 Thanks for your suggestions.  I remain confused by colliding strings
 and
 ditto realities.
 I cannot believe that Joel van Lennep would make an instrument with
 the
 design flaws your comments imply.  Could it be that my lute does not
 live
 up to your expectations, because it is a 14 course archlute.  (BTW,
 Suzanne seems to have a space problem too.) The courses have to be
 close
 together for the instrument to be playable, it would seem.  The
 distance
 between the string of the 6th and 7th courses is is roughly 4mm,
 8mm, and
 4mm.  If pairs of the individual courses were to be 5mm apart, this
 would
 become 5mm, 6mm, 5mm.  It would introduce a 6.5th course, a
 revolutionary
 design!  My guess is that the compromise that was made tries to
 avoid the
 the clanging disaster by creating more space at the nut.  Actually,
 there
 is more: the octave strings are slightly closer to the sound board
 than
 the fundamentals in both courses.
 Thanks again,
 Peter.
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[LUTE] Re: colliding strings

2011-07-22 Thread Peter Nightingale
On Fri, 22 Jul 2011, Suzanne Angevine wrote:


> But it does seem like the spacing at the nut could be done as you like.  Mine 
> was not optimal at first either, but I have moved things around to much 
> closer to right.  At least that problem was sort of fixable.

That would solve a problem that I do not have, or at least are not aware 
of having, and it would have have a fair chance of making the problem I do 
have worse by bringing the strings closer together.

Peter.

> Suzanne

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[LUTE] Re: colliding strings

2011-07-22 Thread Peter Nightingale
Van Lennep may have also struck a compromise based on the size of the 
hands of lutenist for whom he made the instrument originally, and who sold 
it to me when she had had enough of luting.

Peter.

On Sat, 23 Jul 2011, Ed Durbrow wrote:

> You have articulated the conundrum. Joel van Lennep is probably basing his 
> instruments on historical instruments. Spacing on historical instruments is 
> sometimes impossible for us moderns. We might collectively be missing 
> something. Either they had some string technology we are not aware of or they 
> liked twang or they played very lightly near the bridge. Who knows?
>
> I'll dig out my archlute and see what the spacing is. Again, I had the bridge 
> re-drilled on it to give me more space on the double courses.
>
> On Jul 22, 2011, at 11:32 PM, Peter Nightingale wrote:
>
>> Ed, Suzanne, Roman, Alexander, ...
>> 
>> Thanks for your suggestions.  I remain confused by colliding strings and
>> ditto realities.
>> 
>> I cannot believe that Joel van Lennep would make an instrument with the
>> design flaws your comments imply.  Could it be that my lute does not live
>> up to your expectations, because it is a 14 course archlute.  (BTW,
>> Suzanne seems to have a space problem too.) The courses have to be close
>> together for the instrument to be playable, it would seem.  The distance
>> between the string of the 6th and 7th courses is is roughly 4mm, 8mm, and
>> 4mm.  If pairs of the individual courses were to be 5mm apart, this would
>> become 5mm, 6mm, 5mm.  It would introduce a 6.5th course, a revolutionary
>> design!  My guess is that the compromise that was made tries to avoid the
>> the clanging disaster by creating more space at the nut.  Actually, there
>> is more: the octave strings are slightly closer to the sound board than
>> the fundamentals in both courses.
>> 
>> Thanks again,
>> Peter.
>> 
>> the next auto-quote is:
>> A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy,
>> education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary.
>> Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of
>> punishment and hope of reward after death.
>> (Albert Einstein)
>> /\/\
>> Peter Nightingale  Telephone (401) 874-5882
>> Department of Physics, East Hall   Fax (401) 874-2380
>> University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>
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> http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/
>
>
>

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[LUTE] Re: colliding strings

2011-07-22 Thread Sean Smith


I think I know how she solved her problem of colliding strings.


On Jul 22, 2011, at 1:31 PM, Peter Nightingale wrote:

Van Lennep may have also struck a compromise based on the size of the
hands of lutenist for whom he made the instrument originally, and who  
sold

it to me when she had had enough of luting.

Peter.

On Sat, 23 Jul 2011, Ed Durbrow wrote:

You have articulated the conundrum. Joel van Lennep is probably  
basing his
instruments on historical instruments. Spacing on historical  
instruments is

sometimes impossible for us moderns. We might collectively be missing
something. Either they had some string technology we are not aware  
of or they

liked twang or they played very lightly near the bridge. Who knows?

I'll dig out my archlute and see what the spacing is. Again, I had  
the bridge

re-drilled on it to give me more space on the double courses.

On Jul 22, 2011, at 11:32 PM, Peter Nightingale wrote:


Ed, Suzanne, Roman, Alexander, ...

Thanks for your suggestions.  I remain confused by colliding  
strings and

ditto realities.

I cannot believe that Joel van Lennep would make an instrument with  
the
design flaws your comments imply.  Could it be that my lute does  
not live

up to your expectations, because it is a 14 course archlute.  (BTW,
Suzanne seems to have a space problem too.) The courses have to be  
close
together for the instrument to be playable, it would seem.  The  
distance
between the string of the 6th and 7th courses is is roughly 4mm,  
8mm, and
4mm.  If pairs of the individual courses were to be 5mm apart, this  
would
become 5mm, 6mm, 5mm.  It would introduce a 6.5th course, a  
revolutionary
design!  My guess is that the compromise that was made tries to  
avoid the
the clanging disaster by creating more space at the nut.  Actually,  
there
is more: the octave strings are slightly closer to the sound board  
than

the fundamentals in both courses.

Thanks again,
Peter.

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education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is  
necessary.
Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by  
fear of

punishment and hope of reward after death.
(Albert Einstein)
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[LUTE] Re: colliding strings

2011-07-22 Thread Peter Nightingale
On Fri, 22 Jul 2011, Alexander Batov wrote:

> Hi Peter,
>
> I don't thinks your maker did anything wrong, not at all. I'm guessing of 
> course but it looks like he simply replicated the sting spacing (well, at 
> least on the bridge, I'm not so sure about the nut ...) from the bridge(s) of 
> one of the original archlute or theorbo (a few of those have indeed survived 
> with their original bridges intact). If this is the case, the distance 
> between individual strings in courses as little as 4.0 mm and even less would 
> be 'fairly' normal. To give just one, rather 'extreme' example: the original 
> bridge of a theorbo by Martinus Kaiser (E.24, Musee de la Musique, Paris) has 
> about 3.3 - 3.5 mm between the strings of the 6th course; and this is for the 
> string length at c. 88.5 cm! I don't know what the string length of your 
> archlute is but if it is, say, within 57 - 64 cm, then 4 mm would be about 
> right (perhaps even on a wider side!) by the 'old standards'.

The top seven courses are 66 cm.  I think it's a somewhat unusal 
instrument that began its life as a theorbo made by some luthier whose 
name I do not know and was transgendered to its current form by Van Lennep 
for the person from whom I bought it You can see the thing here: 
http://www.phys.uri.edu/~nigh/lute/
(there are 6 picures, but only tow appear at the same time.)

> So again, with such close spacing, a lot depends on where you pluck the 
> strings ... Although not an archlute but perhaps something like this 
> would work:
>
> http://www.klassiskgitar.net/unknown17-portraitofalut.html

I think I have gravitated ed a little to that automatically already, 
because p-i is not so practical if p is otherise employed.

>
> Good luck!

Thanks,
Peter.

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[LUTE] Re: colliding strings

2011-07-22 Thread Peter Nightingale
On Fri, 22 Jul 2011, Rockford Mjos wrote:

> On all of these dimensions, are people talking about distances of string 
> center to string center (which is how I understand these type of 
> measurements)? Or might some people be measuring the "gap" between the string 
> "edges"?
My numbers were measuring center-center distance.
>
> Last night I stumbled across notes I had taken from a 1979 LSA class with 
> Paul O'Dette. One of the notes from the class read:
> "One of the main causes of slapping strings is setting strings in motion at 
> diff. times. and _not_ of force."

I think that the discussion pushed me in the direction of technique 
rather than lute surgery.

Peter.

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[LUTE] Re: colliding strings

2011-07-22 Thread Peter Nightingale
On Fri, 22 Jul 2011, Sean Smith wrote:

>
> I think I know how she solved her problem of colliding strings.

I'm glad I did not mention her name, but I have good reasons to believe 
you are wrong.

Peter.
>
> On Jul 22, 2011, at 1:31 PM, Peter Nightingale wrote:
>
> Van Lennep may have also struck a compromise based on the size of the
> hands of lutenist for whom he made the instrument originally, and who sold
> it to me when she had had enough of luting.
>
> Peter.

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[LUTE] Re: Re: Mace

2011-07-22 Thread mathias.roe...@t-online.de
 > I hear you loud and clear with regard to renaissance lute being a good
 > prep. for baroque. Having played 10-courses, my thumb is pretty
 > comfortable all over. I use thumb-under, even on the 10-course,

That's what you can see with many players, that much is true. When you look at 
paintings of people playing the 10c lute (and the more so baroque lute 
players), however, you will see nothing else but thumb-out. And Vallet wrote in 
his 1615 preface (Secret des Muses), that although some non-versatile players 
in his days would still use thumb-in technique (thumb-under), he considered it 
ridiculous (sic!) and strongly recommended his students to use thumb-out 
technique.

Post your RH little finger close to the bridge, set your fingers into a right 
angle with the strings, and stretch your thumb toward the rose. The resulting 
sound will be silvery with the upper voices, kinda resembling a tiny 
harpsichord, and soft with the basses. It distinctly differs from the 
"classical" renaissance lute.

The reason why many players of 10c lutes and baroque lutes do not use this 
technique is, or so I guess, that it resembles classical guitar technique much 
too closely (except for the position of the RH very close to the bridge). We do 
want to get as far as possible from our dark past, don't we ;^)

 > I think what I was trying to say is that the ornamentation on baroque
 > lute seems to be more detailed, or refined, or whatever one would call
 > it (at a loss for the right word?).

Yes. George Torres offered a detailed analysis of French baroque ornaments in a 
recent Lute Society publication. I think that ornaments in the 17th and 18th 
centuries were much less subject to personal taste than one would possibly 
reckon today, as they were integral to the music, not additional adornment.

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[LUTE] Re: Mace

2011-07-22 Thread wikla
Dear Mathias and all

On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 23:00:13 +0200, "mathias.roe...@t-online.de"
> The reason why many players of 10c lutes and baroque lutes do not use
this
> technique is, or so I guess, that it resembles classical guitar technique
> much too closely (except for the position of the RH very close to the
> bridge). We do want to get as far as possible from our dark past, don't
we
> ;^)

I sincerely think this is not true. It might have been the reason in the
1980's, but clearly not in our 3rd millennium. And everybody with a touch
to the Segovia style and to the thumb over technique, knows the differences
clearly: for ex the p-i-p-i fingering on higher strings/courses is not
strange at all to thumb over lute players. And remember our pinkies staying
on the table... And btw, I cannot see today any fight between guitarists
and lutenists! Quite on the contrary. But the guitarists seem to fight
between themselves all the time! Even and perhaps especially our baroque
guitarists... :-)

Best, 

Arto



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[LUTE] Re: New lute CD "Lautenschmaus"

2011-07-22 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
Congrats!  I'm looking forward to putting a copy on my shelves.

Eugene

- Original Message -
From: Daniel Shoskes 
Date: Friday, July 22, 2011 6:38 pm
Subject: [LUTE] New lute CD "Lautenschmaus"
To: lute 

>    Dear Friends: I am excited to announce the release 
> of my first CD
>    entitled "Lautenschmaus" (The Lute Feast): 
> Ascendance of the German
>    Baroque Lute. It covers music of composers such as 
> Reusner, Logy, St.
>    Luc, Kuhnel, Weiss, Lauffensteiner, Bach and 
> Turovsky and has many
>    works not previously recorded. They are performed 
> on a gut strung 11
>    course lute and a nylgut/copper wound strung 13 
> course lute.
>    Promotional video: 
> [1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OLeLKtJoVI
>    Download the album from Digstation:
>    
> [2]http://www.digstation.com/AlbumDetails.aspx?albumID=ALB81211   In the 
> next few days it should be available for download and purchase
>    of the physical CD from CDbaby.com and in 2-3 weeks 
> from the iTunes
>    store and Amazon.com
>    Best wishes
>    Daniel Shoskes
>    --
> 
> References
> 
>    1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OLeLKtJoVI
>    2. 
> http://www.digstation.com/AlbumDetails.aspx?albumID=ALB81211
> 
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