Re: Do pegs get smooth and begin slipping?

2004-02-10 Thread Gernot Hilger
Goldregen is "laburnum" g On 10.02.2004, at 07:48, Matthias Wagner wrote: > Hello Vance, > > pear for pegs is a little bit too soft. I don't use this. > The best wood for pegs is boxwood, followed by Plumwood which I use > very often > and Olive wood. Besides stability this looks very nice. Fur

Re: Do pegs get smooth and begin slipping?

2004-02-10 Thread Ed Margerum
At 7:48 AM +0100 2/10/04, Matthias Wagner wrote: >Hello Vance, > >pear for pegs is a little bit too soft. I don't use this. >Furthermore I used another >wood, but I could not find the translation. Probably someone in this >list knows the >name. It is called "Goldregen". It is a ornamental tree in

Enrico Baiano performance

2004-02-10 Thread Vickers, Katie
Dear lute list members, I hope it's OK to use this list to promote an event - apologies if I'm not supposed to. I would like to bring to your attention a performance by Paul O'Dette, at the Purcell Room in London, on Monday 5 April 2004 at 7.30pm. He will give a solo recital entitled "The Golde

sarmaticae

2004-02-10 Thread Roman Turovsky
I have just added something nice for Renaissance Lute (beginners would appreciate it too, I'm sure...) in the Sarmaticae series (#15) at http://polyhymnion.org/torban/torban4.html RT

Re: Recital in Loughborough

2004-02-10 Thread Ron Fletcher
Re-submitted as the University phone number was wrong before... Wednesday 3rd March Cope Auditorium Epinal Way Loughborough University 7.30 pm Emma Kirkby and Anthony Rooley offer an imaginative and satirical insight into the last days of the Elizabethan era. Intimate lute-song settings of po

FW: Do pegs get smooth and begin slipping?

2004-02-10 Thread Ron Fletcher
Certainly the seeds of the Laburnum and probably the leaves and flowers are well known as being poisonous. Most gardening books will say that these shrubs should not be grown in gardens where children play. Whether the wood is poisonous is not so important. The wood-turner is always advised t

Airs de Cour

2004-02-10 Thread David Rastall
Dear luters, I'm looking at the SEDIM edition of Airs de Cours Pour Voix et Luth, and I have some questions. The lute parts don't always match the accompaniment parts in staff notation. Is this because some of the songs were written for lute in A, some for lute in F, and some for lute in G e

Re: Airs de Cour

2004-02-10 Thread Gordon J. Callon
> I'm looking at the SEDIM edition of Airs de Cours Pour Voix et Luth, > and I have some questions. The lute parts don't always match the > accompaniment parts in staff notation. Is this because some of the > songs were written for lute in A, some for lute in F, and some for > lute in G etc. Tha

Re: Do pegs get smooth and begin slipping?

2004-02-10 Thread Jon Murphy
Ron, The wood turner is definitely advised to use a mask, but I usually don't. I'd be perfectly happy to suck on a Laburnum lute peg, where I into a substitute for sucking my thumb (which I quit about 63 years ago). When a wood turner should definitely wear a mask, and a good one, is when turning

Re: Do pegs get smooth and begin slipping?

2004-02-10 Thread Jon Murphy
Steve, You mention the way a log shrinks. You are right. Along with fussing with instruments I also am a wood turner. No matter how well dried wood will have a differential shrinkage until it becomes part of the Petrified Forest. It is just a matter of how much and in which direction. A tree is ma