Dear David:
I studied the harp in college, so I can answer the suzuki question on the harp!
Yes, the Suzuki method is used successfully to teach very young children how to play
the harp, and currently, several harp manufacturers make instruments suitable for
these children or they learn on
Hello,
Some 15 years ago I bought a second hand soprano lute in D (43 cm string
length) and my son of 3 learnt to play on it some nursery rhymes he knew
already by ear.
I think the most difficult thing for small children is to hold the
instrument, not too firm otherwise they block but not too
David,
My son started lessons in a classical guitar program called
Childbloom when he was 8. He's now 16 and has stayed with it pretty
much without the traditional nagging from his parents about doing his
practicing. And his teacher thinks he's matured into a pretty good
guitarist. He's no
Jerry Willard plays a nice replica
http://www.jerrywillard.com/
World's Oldest Guitar. Anybody have anymore useful information about
this critter?
http://www.frets.com/FRETSPages/History/Diaz1590/diaz1590.html
Regards to all,
Leonard Williams
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Frank Longay has summer seminars for teachers of Suzuki Guitar in Saratoga,
Caifornia. Surely there must be other seminars.
http://www,longay.com
ajn
I also have some knowledge of the Suzuki violin method because I did it
for several years with my daughter who started also at three, but after
a few years she went on in the normal music school system.
I don't think they advance much more when you start very early, it just
takes more time to
Hi, all
I have an 8-course ren. lute, 570 cm string length 1st course g' (using
a'=415 as a reference), and tend to play mostly 6-course early ren.
music. I'm using nylon for the upper courses which results in a tension
of 3 kg for the chanterelle and 2.1 kg per string for the 2nd and 3rd
I'm learning to tune by ear. Every day I throw my lute out of tune, tune
it back by ear, measure the result with a tuner, and chart my progress in
a log.
Is it better to use intervals between open strings? Or is it better to
use the frets?
If you use intervals, then you have to tune
I think a thinner string is required with adequate tension, but don't
have any experience with gut, nylgut, carbon, etc.
I use carbon on 4 upper courses, happily.
RT
The guys who sell lute strings are expert at this sort of thing (knowing,
for example, what's actually available). Call several of them on the
telephone and find one that seems knowledgeable and friendly.
One list of retailers is at
http://www.unm.edu/~ctdbach/music/lute_strings.html
A little
ps.
Nylgut's niceties only last 2-3 weeks. After that it goes dead.
RT
I think a thinner string is required with adequate tension, but don't
have any experience with gut, nylgut, carbon, etc.
I use carbon on 4 upper courses, happily.
RT
My friends from the mediaeval music ensemble Syntagma are issuing a new and
very fine CD in April. 2 tracks have been made available for your perusal
and delectation at
http://www.polyhymnion.org/syntagma/
Enjoy,
RT
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Roman M. Turovsky
http://turovsky.org
http://polyhymnion.org
My teacher says that if you want longevity, use carbon.
That doesn't meet my experience. I am using Nylgut for a fairly long
time and made rather good experience regarding durability.
My opinion: Nylgut is regarding sound and playability the best available
at the moment apart from the one or the other gut string and is a good
compromise between
About 2 weeks ago my carbon chanterelle started fraying after 5 of so years
on. It eventually broke where it frayed, but it was still in tune until
breakage.
RT
My teacher says that if you want longevity, use carbon.
Dear David:
You might try a gut string. It's a little denser than nylon and sometimes
works well in that transitional space between nylon and wound strings,
i.e., the third and fourth courses.
Yours,
Jim
My teacher says that if you want longevity, use carbon.
But if you want a good sound my hear says: definetively use gut. 8^)
Francesco
Found on a Lithuanian website from 2002:
Spalio 11
19.00 Evangeliku-liuteronu baznycia
ENSEMBLE KAIROS (Svedija)
Kristina Nilsson-Hellgren (sopranas), Peter Söderberg (liutnia, teorba),
Leif Henrikson (viola da gamba)
Aldo Clementi. Aria
Lars Sandberg. Fem Rum
Vytautas Laurusas. Trys
But Carbon sounds *too* bright. It's good for instruments with
weeknesses but gut instruments deserve better strings ...
Am Mit, 2004-02-18 um 23.08 schrieb Herbert Ward:
My teacher says that if you want longevity, use carbon.
--
Thomas Schall
Niederhofheimer Weg 3
D-65843 Sulzbach
My teacher says that if you want longevity, use carbon.
But if you want a good sound my hear says: definetively use gut. 8^)
Francesco
And a modicum of masochism...
RT
My teacher says that if you want longevity, use carbon.
But if you want a good sound my hear says: definetively use
gut. 8^)
Francesco
And a modicum of masochism...
RT
Not at all! I'm very happy with gut. My 3 lutes and my baroque guitar
mounted gut strings from the beginning.
To those of you who responded to my Suzuki question: your input is
very much appreciated. Thanks!
David Rastall
I agree with Francesco and Thomas. I have tried almost every imaginable
string, but I keep coming back to gut, as it is the best sounding string,
without question.
I used to use carbon, but in my opinion, it is a very cold, shrill sounding
string. The good part about carbon is that it is
I have an 8-course ren. lute, 570 cm string length 1st course g' (using
a'=415 as a reference), and tend to play mostly 6-course early ren.
music. I'm using nylon for the upper courses which results in a tension
of 3 kg for the chanterelle and 2.1 kg per string for the 2nd and 3rd
courses
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