Dear Mimmo,
Your last e-mail makes considerable sense to me. I've been
experimenting with a gut top course on the mandolino (g''
with a .4mm polished gut string). These strings generally
last very briefly, a day or two for some... a few
hours for others.
Your notion that polishing the string sm
Hi List,
Thanks for all your input on the tabulature questions. I've always been a play by
the notes kind of guy but I'm taking a long over due look at the tablatures and I
appreciate all your help.
Thanks,
Craig
Craig R. Pierpont
Another Era Lutherie
www.anotherera.com
Dear lutenists, _really dear_ lutenists!
To me the previous events in the world, those that I could even call
"war crimes" and "crimes against humanity", have occurred to me so
horrible and so serious that I really have to work with my attitude to
the USA altogether. So, I'll quit from writing
Hello. I am new to the list and am looking for a copy of the Harvard
University Publications Volume 1 (Music for Lute and Bandora by Anthony Holborne). If
anyone has one for sale or can help locate one, I would really appreciate it.
I had a copy years ago, but it dissappeared long since.
Thanks.
Dear all,
If it is interesting, I've been using nylgut for years, in all
of my lutes and vihuelas, and it is true that it takes a short while until
you find the right gauges, but once you've done it, it is for my taste the
best synthetic option available today in the market.
Advantages
Hi Richard,
I am still astonished: my convintion was that more than 280 Hz x mt of
breagking index was not possible to do.
Things were so, instead.
I have checked accurately the lute top string manufacturing ( that employ 2
guts...) and the chemical treatment (Alun, alkali etc..). So I have seen
th
Dear Sean,
on Sun, 23 May 2004, lutesmith wrote:
> Ah, well, thanks for trying. Of course I was kidding about blue, green and
> striped (this for Arto).
To me!? You mean the "Rumsfeld country: 'cameras forbidden'"? :-(
Arto
Mostly agreements another 2 more cents.
At 11:25 AM 5/23/04, you wrote:
>Hello, may I do some suggestions about nylgut?
>Here the first, usefull to stabilize nylgut immediately: stretch generously
>by hands each nylgut strings in the midele of the length of bone to bridge
>during the tuning and s
Dear Stephen,
I have been using Nylgut strings on both of my 6 course lutes for
about 2 years (still the first set on both so far!). I have plain nylgut
down to the fourth course and octaves on the 5th & 6th with
Pyramid basses. Both instruments are played very regularly
(most days). I find the str
Stephen--
I'm very amateur, but have been playing for some time; haven't done a lot of
experimenting with stringing, but FWIW: I like nylgut over other synthetics for the
feel and sound; I like it over gut for its relatively greater stability and lesser
cost.
For my treble g I use a s
The diagonal lines may indicate a held note, particularly if they extend from a
bass note and continue under a moving upper line. If it is an open string, try to let
it ring; if fretted, try to keep it fretted until the line ends, which sometimes
requires some left-hand fingering strategy
Hello, may I do some suggestions about nylgut?
Here the first, usefull to stabilize nylgut immediately: stretch generously
by hands each nylgut strings in the midele of the length of bone to bridge
during the tuning and stop this operation only when they have'nt any more
displacement and stay in tu
Hi Craig:
Usually dots under notes indicate what fingers of the right hand the notes
should be played with, one dot = index finger, two dots = middle finger, and
occasionally three dots = ring finger. The line you described is found in
some musical sources to indicate that the particular note whe
Oh, one more thing about nylgut
If you keep a spare topstring in your case for the enevitable breakage,
don't choose nylgut if the situation is critical. Make it real gut if
possible. Synthetics take much longer to stabilize. You might get away w/ a
nylgut if you have an hour lead time but
Stephen,
I often use Nylgut on the 1st and 2nd courses and 4th course octave of my
6-c lutes.
I like:
the similar density to gut
it's tuning is usually predictable (but the thin ones go a little atonal
after 6 months).
they are inexpensive
I don't like (but deem acceptable):
the hardness (it
What is the book? Is it a facsimile?
The diagaonal line: If it is a CNRS book it may mean to hold that bass note
or sometims inner voices.
The single dot directly underneath and on the off beats usually means to
use the r.h. index finger.
If it alternates w/ a double dot then the composer sugg
Dear Stephen and Thomas
On 23 May 2004, Thomas Schall wrote:
> I am using Nylgut on my renaissance lute and my Vihuela with good
> results.
> In my opionion nylgut's the second best possible solution for stringing
> (after pure gut). I am using Nylgut because it provides me the
> compromise of
Hello Craig,
I'm a complete amateur at the lute, but I seem to remember reading that dots
above or below certain notes indicate that those notes form the melody line of
a song which the lute accompanies. Does that make sense? Cheers
Tom Beck
--
Hi Craig,
what's the title of the tabulature?
Usually a dot under letter indicates the right hand fingering (index
finger).
I guess the "rising lines" are basses (how many lines does the
tabulature system have? Early french tabulature often has just 5 lines
and the basses an the 6th and 7th cour
Hi Stephen,
I am using Nylgut on my renaissance lute and my Vihuela with good
results.
In my opionion nylgut's the second best possible solution for stringing
(after pure gut). I am using Nylgut because it provides me the
compromise of staying better/longer in tune and a sound close to gut.
Anyh
Hi List,
I am looking at some tablature and there are some markings I am not sure how to
interpret. This is 16 th century French tablature. Directly under about half of the
notes is a dot. ? In the bottom space of many of the measures is a rising diagonal
line. Sometimes there are two. These l
Hi List,
I am looking at some tablature and there are some markings I am not sure how to
interpret. This is 16 th century French tablature. Directly under about half of the
notes is a dot. ? In the bottom space of many of the measures is a rising diagonal
line. Sometimes there are two. These l
Hello to All!
I read with interest Bill's response to Charles concerning nylgut =
strings. I have been wanting to try nylgut, but the luthier who made my =
instrument has a rather low opinion of them, so I haven't yet. Since =
Bill plays the oud rather than the lute, I'm wondering whether any =
Re
Dear All,
Grateful thanks for the many helpful replies I have had. I've phoned up my
luthier, and he suggested I bring the instrument along for him to have another
look at. It's only about 3/4 of an hour in the car, the weather is nice, the
place where is lives is lovely, and it'll make a very
Hi Richard, things are a bit different.
The breacking index is the theoric point were a gut string broken, in my =
case an average of 260 Hzxmt.
so it mean that in a lute in g with a-440 Hz the vibrating string lenght =
were a gut string (of every gauge) is 66 cms.
For a working lenght need a short
Using your numbers, I calculate that to reach g at 440 Hz I could use a
lute up to 660 mm string length using 260 Hz x m.In fact I can't
get much above f with this string length. At 680 mm string length
most top strings are true for less than a week at f.I think your
numbers are too o
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