Vance,
I come from a great background of strings, when my late sixties (in age,
late fifties when we performed together) group of Tigertones gathers each
fall one of the easy warm up songs we sing is "String along, string along,
string along with me". And I must assure you that the bandinage has c
Steve,
I appreciate the suggestion of anhydrous lanolin but although I know what
lanolin is (and what anhydrous means) I'm not sure if my pharmacist would
carry such a generic thing. Various hair and skin products are lanolin
based, but are they anhydrous (and just for information why would lanoli
Dear Lute Listers
I should like to thank everyone who has so kindly offered suggestions about
my broken string. I have a lot to think about now, and various strategies
to try. For those who might be interested, the lute is a new, 8 course
Renaissance lute, and was made by the Early Music Shop i
Just added:
2 Epistles by Carl Michael Bellman, in Swedish, acc. for
baroque lute
in
http://www.polyhymnion.org/lieder/scandinavian.html
2 versions of "Tre Giorni Son Che Nina" in Italian and German [sic!]
in
http://www.polyhymnion.org/lieder/italian.html
http://www.polyhymnion.org/lieder/german.
Hi All,
I've never had much luck with the pencil lead/graphite business on the string
or nut to ease passage of the windings of a string over the nut. However, not
long ago I tried a pinhead-sized spot of anhydrous lanolin rubbed into the
portion of the string passing over the nut and in the
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Why facet the mould? Wouldn't it be easier to plane and fit the ribs if the
edges were slightly clear of the mould?
I'm asking because I have a solid mould made, but I haven't made a bowl on
it yet.
David Cameron
>Hi all,
>
>I apologize if this topic has been covered before---I
>wasn't able to f
>
> Concur, but like all languages of the time that which we call the German
> language was in development. I can read Beowulf in the original
That is a remarkable feat!
Here is a snippet of the original:
"Hwæt! We Gardena in geardagum,
Þeodcyninga, Þrym gefrunon,
hu ða æÞelingas
The actual lute Hoppy played on his recent Dowland
tour was an eight course lute built in 2002 by Joel
Van Lennup. I heard him play in Troy NY a few weeks
ago and also played the instrument - which is
magnificent, by the way - But I don't know what
instrument is pictured in the flyer = his 8 c. had
Hello All,
I have a couple thoughts on this:
Perhaps the pegs worked better after the change in
part simply because you turned them many many times
more than you would in normal tuning and smoothed them
out a bit?
or
When you no longer had extra string wound around the
pegs the string lay dire
> This may be true, but that doesn't say anything about Ireland, and even
> if there is documentation about how and when it all happened in
> England, that doesn't mean that it didn't happen somewhere else,
Canuns/santurs didn't have wire strings until Ottoman times either.
> possibly using di
Dear Jon:
I kind of enjoy the badinage and out right antagonism and your string on
strings has been interesting. It is obvious you have a great deal of
knowledge on this issue and I hope you will continue to contribute even if
you string us along one more time.
Vance Wood.
- Original Message
>If I remember it right, the ancient method of making wire for
jewelry was to cut a strip of metal and twist it into a wire, not to
draw the wire through a die. There is jewelry made from wire going
as far back as the Bronze Age.
Tim
>
>
> Original Message
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To:
i've played my oud nude
while waiting for the shower
red welts, ribs and thigh
--- timothy motz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Wether or not you performed without clothes would
> depend on which you
> thought was your strong suite- your playing or your
> body. I'll keep
> practicing.
>
> But i
>>> The art
>>> of wire-drawing does not appear to have been known until the 14th
>>> century,
>>> and it was not introduced into England before the second half of the
>>> 17th
This may be true, but that doesn't say anything about Ireland, and even
if there is documentation about how and when i
Wether or not you performed without clothes would depend on which you
thought was your strong suite- your playing or your body. I'll keep
practicing.
But if you did perform in the nude, you could probably call it
performance art and get a grant to fund it ;-)
I don't know what's available in
On Monday 29 November 2004 15:34, Wayne Cripps wrote:
Hello wayne,
First of all I don't understand, the 415 for baroque and 440 for renaissance.
A renaissance lute is often smaller, so a high A frequency results in very
thin strings, which becomes a problem if you start using gut . My renaissance
At 10:06 AM 11/28/2004, Roman Turovsky wrote:
>All this DOES NOT PRECLUDE GUT-WIRE COMBINATION rather early, as weaving
>textile grade wire into gut is absolutely conceivable, and this is probably
>what Gerardus Cambrensis saw in Ireland in the 12th century.
..Or (and not really knowing much of ha
Indeed. I wouldn't recommend direct conversion of sound waves to
electronic output in this case. I think Neil's setup is pretty much a
high-quality mic packed down the throat of the horn of whatever player he
has accessible for whatever project.
Best,
E
At 12:36 AM 11/26/2004, you wrote:
>Eu
Hi -
I just updated my on line string calculator at
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/string/string.html
I would be interested in comments from people who
have worked with getting a good set of string tensions
for the range of strings. I am using some of George
Blanford's ideas about incre
>
> What were the early clavichords (as in Zwolle) strung with? I would assume
> keyboard makers have established the early history of their strings?
Zwolle is 1440, so it could easily strung with anything you like.
RT
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Do you have a teacher? What does s/he say about it? If you just got
the lute, it could have been just an anomaly or it may be that your
lute is strung improperly. You do not want to have the wrong tension
on there. If you are brand new to the lute, coming from classical
guitar, you need to be a
Dear Caroline,
It would appear that your F string is a wound string. Wound strings
tend to get stuck at the nut. You can avoid this by rubbing a pencil
on the nut and on the string, where they come into contact with each
other. The graphite of the pencil lead acts as a lubricant.
To find the righ
I have in front of me a picture of Hopkinson Smith, described in the flyer
for a concert as "the best player in the world" by the San Francisco
Chronical. I'm lazy on my mail so missed the concert at Princeton (and we
all know that the best is always what a flyer says).
But the photo shows what ap
I am pleased to inform the members of the list that I will no longer be
promulgating all that BRARNEY about early wired harps, nor shall I ever
again speak of kissing the Blarney Stone. But don't get your hopes up, I
shall remain on the list and contribute whatever inaccurate and fallacious
message
Stewart,
I probably should have written this off list to you, I didn't correspond
with Dawn. But your final paragraph, about playing in a pub and being
"subbed" for during a break - and that taken from her thoughts in her
email - rang a bell. I think I'll have to print her message as you
transcrib
Dear Caroline,
I gather the string in question was a thin wound string - so the friction
over the nut could be considerable. When tuning any string it is important
not to allow the tension between the peg and the nut to get too high, so it
is best to lower the pitch slightly before pulling the
Well said David,
Leonard makes a point, and a good one. The consitancy of an unstopped string
is less important than in a stopped string. But you are right, it is still
important. A we all know the string vibrates in a complex pattern and the
subdivisions of the vibration make the overtones that p
On Monday 29 November 2004 01:12, you wrote:
This is indeed a very sad message. I remember that I mailed with her a few
times off-list about contemporary music several years ago. Dawn sent me by
surface mail some of her compositions. Between those pieces was a very nice
small courante. I will p
> (Ps: The word Germany or Teutschland was used as a designation of the
lands
> inhabited by German speaking people long before Germany became a state)
Concur, but like all languages of the time that which we call the German
language was in development. I can read Beowulf in the original, as I ca
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