Re: Nylgut

2005-01-15 Thread Jon Murphy
Bill with nylgut, however, my charango sounds like a lute or ( ... steady ... ) what i imagine a small vihuela would sound like, had one survived. Glad to hear that. I'm anxiously awaiting the nylgut strings I've ordered for my charango that I've tuned as in the Skene Mandora Book. The

Carl Sjoberg - Tonerna

2005-01-15 Thread Charles Browne
Does anybody have a sheet music copy of this song, orginally for piano and soprano? if so, could they get in touch with me,off-list,please? thanks Charles Browne To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

Re: Top three lute pieces

2005-01-15 Thread lutesmith
This week's top 3: Sididero --Alexander Agricola (Capirola ms.) Ales regrets --Hayne von Ghizeghem (Capirola) Ma bouche rit --Ockeghem (Spinacino) Sean - Original Message - From: David Cassetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lute net lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005

Re: Instrument Sounding

2005-01-15 Thread David Cassetti
Thanks to everyone for the advice on playing a modern classical guitar thumb-under without nails. Today I moved the strings over by one and used a thinner 1st string (.020 , 0.51mm), resulting in a tension of about 4 kg / string. To my surprise the tone did not suffer (except for the g string