The Stubbs performance of the Weiss C major suite on
this disc is not to be missed. Wait til you hear the
courante and the allegro. This allegro is probably as
difficult and dramatic as the baroque lute gets and
Stubbs more than does it justice. Oh you are in for a
treat!
Sterling Price
Hello
implicit in howard's original posting is the
invitation to compare what once was to what is now and
while it's entertaining to speculate on the
differences and similarities between one time or
another, we are, in effect, walking in the dark with
only a flash light to see by. overall, there's not
bill kilpatrick wrote:
implicit in howard's original posting is the
invitation to compare what once was to what is now
The original posting was not from me, thank you very much.
HP
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Dear Jon,
Gut for lute strings comes from sheep. The word cattle used to
include sheep as well as cows. Catgut is short for cattle gut,
i.e. gut from sheep. Catgut has as much to do with cats as those
cat's-eye things in the middle of the road.
Best wishes,
Stewart McCoy.
- Original
Dear Garry,
Did you come to any conclusions about the possibility of luthiers
using Spelk-like planes to run off lute ribs quickly and cheaply?
The thread seemed to get diverted onto something else.
Many years ago I read somewhere that, if you bought a new guitar (I
forget where), they'd give
The original posting was not from me, thank you
very
much.
HP
i beg your pardon. you're such a font of interest
that i naturally assumed ...
- bill
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and thus i made...a small vihuela from the shell of a creepy crawly... - Don
Gonzalo de Guerrero (1512), Historias de la Conquista
--- Stewart McCoy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Catgut is short for cattle gut, i.e. gut from
sheep.
i think jon was kidding - sheep, geddit?
http://www.labella.com/index.asp
has an alternative for the cat in cat gut.
yours is more plausable.
- bill
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and thus i made...a small vihuela
