Re: Instrument Sounding

2004-12-23 Thread Jon Murphy
Jim, also a good description of a harp stroke. But to another's point as to the zen of making the sound, the conscious and the unconscious. Years ago I was a rather competant skier - actually an instructor and a rescue patrolman. Some years after I quit I went on a day excursion to help a friend on

Tension and vibrating length

2004-12-23 Thread Jon Murphy
I'll try again, as I'm yet trying to string that "charandora". I am looking for opinions. I repeat, the O.W. (Aquila) string calculator recommends tensions in Newtons that vary for the same pitch depending on the VL. (This already takes into effect the guage, as that is the resultant. I've noted be

Weiss-duets

2004-12-23 Thread "Mathias Rösel"
Dear everybody, does somebody here happen to know about _access_ (microfilm, paper copies, Fronimo files) to the volume of duets by Weiss in Dresden that was not published in facsimile (GDR-Zentralantiquariat)? A friend of mine asked me to forward his question. He is planning to play a recital wit

Re: Weiss-duets

2004-12-23 Thread Thomas Schall
The Weiss duets are accessible - I would have a copy of the facsimile but also the great arrangements by Charly Schroeder should be available by asking Bob Barto. I've spoken about that topic with him a while ago and I think he will sell them for a while but he also grummels about uncertain pla

Re: gittern lute sighting c.1375 -- obscure fresco, Italian, private dealer sale

2004-12-23 Thread Roger E. Blumberg
- Original Message - From: "bill kilpatrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Roger E. Blumberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "LUTE-LIST" Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 8:43 PM Subject: Re: gittern lute sighting c.1375 -- obscure fresco, Italian, private dealer sale > interesting (if improbable) pl

Re: gittern lute sighting c.1375 -- obscure fresco, Italian, private dealer sale

2004-12-23 Thread Howard Posner
Roger E. Blumberg wrote: > And the more you mention it; even their > spacing is suspect. i.e. on such a short scale instrument the frets would be > much closer together that high up. So I don't know what the deal is. The deal is probably that the artist didn't care about fret spacing and paid no

Re: Weiss-duets

2004-12-23 Thread Alain Veylit
Hi all, This is not exactly what Mathias is after, but I have a copy of a Weiss duet from the Moscow MS: See: MIDI http://cbsr26.ucr.edu/wlkfiles/Publications/Weiss/Moscow/Weiss_duetto_primo.mid PDF http://cbsr26.ucr.edu/wlkfiles/Publications/Weiss/Moscow/DuettoPrimo.pdf Django http://cbsr26.ucr

Re: Happy Christmas

2004-12-23 Thread G.R. Crona
Dear Ron, Many txs for your hilarious recipe. I tried it out with a twist though, using Vodka instead of whisky, (better for your liver, although still, one of the most destructive drugs you can use), and chicken instead of turkey. But something must have gone terribly wrong, 'cause I found myself

Re: gittern lute sighting c.1375 -- obscure fresco, Italian,private dealer sale

2004-12-23 Thread Roger E. Blumberg
- Original Message - From: "Howard Posner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Roger E. Blumberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "bill kilpatrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "LUTE-LIST" Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 11:01 AM Subject: Re: gittern lute sighting c.1375 -- obscure fresco, Italian,private dealer sal

odd fret pattern

2004-12-23 Thread bill kilpatrick
there's an old instrument - bulgarian perhaps - up for auction on german ebay with an unusual fret arrangement. anyone have any knowledge of this? http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=7799&item=3771339890&rd=1 just curious - bill = "and thus i made...a small vihuela from t

Re: Tension and vibrating length

2004-12-23 Thread David Cameron
Jon Murphy wrote: "... I've noted before that my 63.5 lute is happy with about 35 N on the chanterelle (disregarding the pitch, other factors there) - whereas the 36 instrument I'm working with is recommended to be 27N..." Hi Jon, I find that very interesting. I just completed my first stringed

Re: odd fret pattern

2004-12-23 Thread Roger E. Blumberg
- Original Message - From: "bill kilpatrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "lute list" Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 1:11 PM Subject: odd fret pattern > there's an old instrument - bulgarian perhaps - up for > auction on german ebay with an unusual fret > arrangement. anyone have any kno

Re: odd fret pattern

2004-12-23 Thread Roger E. Blumberg
- Original Message - From: "Roger E. Blumberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "lute list" ; "bill kilpatrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 2:54 PM Subject: Re: odd fret pattern > > - Original Message - > From: "bill kilpatrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "lute li

Weiss concerto reconstruction

2004-12-23 Thread Howard Posner
I recall that at an LSA Seminar in the 90's there was a session devoted to reconstructions of a Weiss concerto or two, and someone played a tape of a concert somewhere. Can someone with a better memory recall who did the reconstruction (Tim Crawford?) and who played it (Nigel North?)? Thanks How

paging David Brown

2004-12-23 Thread Greg Silverman
David, I tried emailing you at [EMAIL PROTECTED], but get a bounce with the following error Your message was not delivered to the following recipients: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 550 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table Danke Schoen!

Re: Weiss concerto reconstruction

2004-12-23 Thread Roman Turovsky
Most likely that was Richard Stone, who has a whole CD of these on Chandos. RT __ Roman M. Turovsky http://polyhymnion.org/swv > I recall that at an LSA Seminar in the 90's there was a session devoted to > reconstructions of a Weiss concerto or two, and someone played a tape of a > con

Re: Weiss concerto reconstruction

2004-12-23 Thread Howard Posner
Roman Turovsky wrote: > Most likely that was Richard Stone, who has a whole CD of these on Chandos. Thanks, but it wasn't. I'm hoping someone who was there will remember. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

Re: Weiss concerto reconstruction

2004-12-23 Thread Edward Martin
I was not at the seminar, but Tim Crawford told me about it. Tim did the reconstructions, and Nigel performed it with Peter Holman in Poland, of all places. I asked Tim for the scores, but he has not published them & was (at least at that time) reluctant to share them. ed At 05:04 PM 12/23

Time Stands Still&Merry Christmass

2004-12-23 Thread rosinfiorini
Just finished the other day this drawing, same name as the song from Dowland, called 'Time Stands Still': http://perso.wanadoo.fr/raydimitry/imagini/timestandstill.jpg Sometime ago i remember writing to some poster here about how shamans consider mass, momentum, inertia, to depend on the rate o

Re: Re: odd fret pattern

2004-12-23 Thread rosinfiorini
i typed on google the place-name (or whatever it is) that they site and it shows it as Croation. the author name gives no returns. They seem to have double standards?(the split fretting for the bass) > - Original Message - > From: "bill kilpatrick" > To: "lute list" > Sent: Thursday

Re: Weiss concerto reconstruction

2004-12-23 Thread Roman Turovsky
Howard, post it on the Baroque list. Tim Crawford reads it. RT > > I was not at the seminar, but Tim Crawford told me about it. Tim did the > reconstructions, and Nigel performed it with Peter Holman in Poland, of all > places. I asked Tim for the scores, but he has not published them & was >

Re: Tension and vibrating length

2004-12-23 Thread rosinfiorini
27N isn't that too thin? and wouldn't it be a little loose? (unless you want your 63 cm lute tuned to G..?) If it were up to me, i'd tune a 63 cm lute to F or lower with nothing thinner than 0.37 mm for the chaterelle. but, all kinds of tastes... What if strings were not cilindrical but conical,

Re: Weiss concerto reconstruction

2004-12-23 Thread Howard Posner
Edward Martin wrote: > I was not at the seminar, but Tim Crawford told me about it. Tim did the > reconstructions, and Nigel performed it with Peter Holman in Poland, of all > places. I asked Tim for the scores, but he has not published them & was > (at least at that time) reluctant to share the