I can agree with the beauty of the bass, and I'm not sure how R. got the
impression that I was suggesting a certain pitch for a certain guage (and
I'm not sure what that means). One can go as long as one wants on fretted
courses, just make a longer neck and more frets - and if your arm is too
Jon wrote:
I can agree with the beauty of the bass
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i'm not talking about the beauty of the bass (whatever that means),
what i talk about is the fact that most of us, lute players, preffer
a LONGER VIBRATING TONE. I've taken time to read some
of your lenghtly writings (hard to find exactly what
Dear lutenists
i'm not talking about the beauty of the bass (whatever that means),=20
what i talk about is the fact that most of us, lute players, preffer
a LONGER VIBRATING TONE.
I strongly doubt that! Many, perhaps most of us(?), used some time ago
the wound pyramid basses. Those modern
Agreed. For my purposes, tuning stability and a tone quality that's compatible
with the treble strings is more of a concern than length of sustain in the bass.
Eric Hansen
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--- On Wed 01/26, Arto Wikla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Arto Wikla [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For that matter carbon is NEVER Used for the bass strings anyway.
RT
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http://polyhymnion.org/torban
Agreed. For my purposes, tuning stability and a tone quality that's compatible
with the treble strings is more of a concern than length of sustain in the
bass.
Eric Hansen
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On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Roman Turovsky wrote:
For that matter carbon is NEVER Used for the bass strings anyway.
Never say never! For years I have used carbon strings very successfully
in my French theorbo made by S. Barber. Works very well also for the bass
strings.
Arto
To get on or off
Dear Kenneth,
thank you for this information! I have written to the slnf.
Joachim
Kenneth Sparr [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
Dear Joachim,
I suggest you contact Robert Derome in Montreal. You can find contact
information at
http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/slnf/
Best wishes
Kenneth Sparr
Dear Bruno,
the manuscript has been catalogued in Victor Coelho's The manuscript sources of
seventeenth-century italian lute music, NY London 1995. Unfortunately I have
no copy of this book at hand momentarily ... but I think I remember the book
had got a shelf mark recently ...
Joachim
Arto Wikla mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
a LONGER VIBRATING TONE.
I strongly doubt that! Many, perhaps most of us(?), used some time ago
the wound pyramid basses. Those modern guitar style strings have very
long vibrating tone. And most of us(?) wanted to get rid of long
vibrating
U...
I use it for the fourteenth course of my theorbo. Gut was a bit too muddy
sounding and the carbon matches the tone of the other diapasons nicely.
Steve
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From: Roman Turovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Wednesday,
At 09:41 PM 1/26/2005 +, Mathias Rösel wrote:
yes, indeed. In August I attended a recital with music by Weiss, played
on a 13c swan-neck with endlessly vibrating wound basses. Couldn't help
falling asleep (my way of resistance in hopeless situations of that
kind).
Having a swan neck
I stand corrected, even if I didn't include long lutes into consideration.
RT
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Roman M. Turovsky
http://polyhymnion.org/swv
U...
I use it for the fourteenth course of my theorbo. Gut was a bit too muddy
sounding and the carbon matches the tone of the other diapasons
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