Re: Delphin gut 2

2004-11-17 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
Dear Stewart, Thanks for your enlightning answer. I could indeed have formulated the question in a more serious way. For us (the rest of the world) it is hard to be funny (deliberately) in English. I am willing to learn more about those fishy mammals. (I am doing research for an article in 'Lute

Gary Southwell, contact info

2004-11-17 Thread Jason Yoshida
This is not exactly lute related but I was hoping someone might know the = answer here. Would anyone know how to get a hold of Gary Southwell. I am interested in his 19th century guitars. I tried the email off of his web site www.southwellguitars.com and it seems he is probably not using it. Thanks

LSA Western Seminar, 2005

2004-11-17 Thread guy_and_liz Smith
The LSA Western Seminar will again be held as part of the Vancouver = Early Music Festival. We are still working on little details like = faculty, but we do have a date now: the week of July 24 through 29, = 2005. Mark your calendars. (BTW, it's not definite yet, but it looks = like we will again b

Re: Spelk planes

2004-11-17 Thread Craig Robert Pierpont
Stewart, I think several of us were of the opinion that the damage to the fibers that would result from using such a plane would preclude their use in the making of a quality instrument. It would be somewhat like building a lute using veneer for the ribs. I remember reading that there

Re: Spelk planes

2004-11-17 Thread Stephan Olbertz
Maybe a flat-back mandolin. You find them a lot on German ebay... Stephan Am 16 Nov 2004 um 23:35 hat Stewart McCoy geschrieben: > 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

Delphin gut 2

2004-11-17 Thread Stewart McCoy
Dear Lex, Sorry to give you such a flippant reply to what was a serious question. Let's start again. For those unfamiliar with the tale of Arion and the Dolphin, the following site gives an easy-to-read account: http://www.thanasis.com/arion.htm Arion is a well-known figure from classical mytho

asteriamusica

2004-11-17 Thread Roman Turovsky
Recommended enphatically: > __ > ~ASTERIA~ > http://asteriamusica.com > > ~medieval and renaissance > music for lute and voices~ RT __ Roman M. Turovsky http://polyhymnion.org/swv To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/

FW: medieval lute intabulations site

2004-11-17 Thread Roman Turovsky
From: Eric Redlinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have started a site to gather intabulations of medieval (pre-1500) pieces from the Dartmouth lute tab archives and elsewhere. Please use, play, distribute! if you have any pieces that you have created or found, please let me know and I will add them...

FW: tab GUI

2004-11-17 Thread Roman Turovsky
From: Eric Redlinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Salut! in my quest to simplify the creation of rehearsal editions of lute/vocal music for my group, ASTERIA, I threw together a graphical user interface for Wayne Cripps' excellent and free TAB application. It runs on Mac OS X "Panther". It won't absolve

Re: Delphin gut

2004-11-17 Thread bill kilpatrick
> Stewart McCoy wrote: Best music ewe heifer herd. :-) fowl! = "and thus i made...a small vihuela from the shell of a creepy crawly..." - Don Gonzalo de Guerrero (1512), "Historias de la Conquista del Mayab" by Fra Joseph of San Buenaventura. go to: http://www.charango.cl/paginas/quienin

Re: Delphin gut

2004-11-17 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
More precisely, is the animal on the frontpage of Mouton's Pices de Luth a descendant of Narvaez' sea horse. In other words could we consider it as plagiarism? Had the artist who engraved the picture in Mouton seen the Seis Libros ? Or is there a picture that both engravers could have taken as

Re: Delphin gut

2004-11-17 Thread Carl Donsbach
Delphic utterances??? --On Wednesday, November 17, 2004 3:09 PM + Stewart McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Lex, > > They were certainly in the same field of music, what with Narvaez > keeping an eye on his cows (Guardame las vacas), and Mouton with his > sheep (mouton). Best music ewe

Re: Delphin gut

2004-11-17 Thread Roman Turovsky
> They were certainly in the same field of music, what with Narvaez > keeping an eye on his cows (Guardame las vacas), and Mouton with his > sheep (mouton). Best music ewe heifer herd. :-) I'm afraid this doesn't work too well in American pronunciation. RT To get on or off this list see list

Delphin gut

2004-11-17 Thread Stewart McCoy
Dear Lex, They were certainly in the same field of music, what with Narvaez keeping an eye on his cows (Guardame las vacas), and Mouton with his sheep (mouton). Best music ewe heifer herd. :-) Best wishes, Stewart McCoy. - Original Message - From: "Lex Eisenhardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> T

Delphin gut

2004-11-17 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
Has anyone noticed that both Luis de Narvaez and Charles Mouton were active in the same watersports? They are both pictured (or was it a plucker from Greece?) on the back of a large fish, presumably a delfin. cheers, L. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmo