Re: The 'perfect' instrument?

2005-02-28 Thread Ed Durbrow
At 9:54 AM +0100 2/27/05, Stephan Olbertz wrote: have a look at http://www.hermode.de/ This is a most interesting site and has very understandable presentations. It's almost enough to make me want to buy Logic Audio just so I can use the system. It presents a solution along the lines of what

Re: Campion's references to deity.

2005-02-28 Thread Herbert Ward
Ever heard of Sweet Jesus? Or Jesu, nomen dulce? I suppose he means to infer that a sweet deity is, more or less, common in historical contexts of serious religious stamp. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

Re: *** SPAM *** Re: Campion's references to deity.

2005-02-28 Thread Monica Hall
Not sure if I missed the original point of this message, but there is a plainsong office hymn for the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus. The Latin starts Jesu dulcis Memoria. The first verse of the English translation is Jesu! the very thought is sweet - in that dear name all heart-joys meet.

Re: wound basses

2005-02-28 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
At 03:38 PM 2/26/2005, Michael Thames wrote: ...1765, the same time when first classical guitar, with single strings (Wound metal on silk) started to appear. Actually, such guitars didn't come until a couple decades later...but the first Neapolitan mandolins did appear around this time and did

Re: The 'perfect' instrument?

2005-02-28 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
At 08:27 AM 2/27/2005, Howard Posner wrote: This actually happens rather a lot in barbershop quartet singing. Barbershoppers adjust intervals on the fly to get chords to ring. Since they're constantly flattening thirds, this tends to make the overall pitch drift downwards. They don't care.

Re: wound basses

2005-02-28 Thread Michael Thames
Eugene, a.. The 6-course guitar arose first in Spain in the 1750's, with double strings (same as today's 12-string guitar) a.. Merits of single vs. double stringing was debated on 5 and 6 course guitars since at least the 1770's a.. String improvements allowed cheap and readily accessible

Re: wound basses

2005-02-28 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
Greetings Michael et al. Yes, I am familiar with Len's site...and the Tyler Sparks text it is referencing on the linked page...and am pretty comfortable with theories of guitar evolution to boot. I think Len's bullets are a little too general and, while generally factual, often are selected

Re: wound basses

2005-02-28 Thread Michael Thames
Eugene, Yes, I agree Len's site is a bit bias towards the pre Torres guitar, but after adding up the facts it is pretty clear, at least to me, that the only original thing Torres did was to develop the modern proportions that are really unsurpassed to this day. In stating that the 6 string

Off-center pegs

2005-02-28 Thread timothy motz
Hi Lutenetters, I am in the middle of turning pegs for a new lute and I've started having problems with them coming out of the shaver off-center, meaning that the shaft isn't centered on the head. Obviously, the shaft is wandering as I'm turning the peg in the shaver. This didn't happen with

making pdf files?

2005-02-28 Thread demery
I wouldn't have a clue how to convert them to pdf files! You do it by 'printing' through a pdf printdriver, the result is a file rather than paper with ink on it. Adobe Acrobat is one expensive way to get the special print driver; THere are other ways (Ghostscript et al being the cheapest

Re: making pdf files?

2005-02-28 Thread Roman Turovsky
I wouldn't have a clue how to convert them to pdf files! You do it by 'printing' through a pdf printdriver, the result is a file rather than paper with ink on it. Adobe Acrobat is one expensive way to get the special print driver; THere are other ways (Ghostscript et al being the

Re: making pdf files?

2005-02-28 Thread Thomas Schall
yes - funnily Adobe's Acrobat often doesn't understand it's own file format. There is also a shareware: PDF995 which installs as printer - the files on my site are mostly made using this shareware. The rest was done using Ghostscript/Ghostview Thomas Am Montag, 28. Februar 2005 23:16 schrieb

Broken Consort

2005-02-28 Thread Thomas Schall
Hi, I'm looking for sources for broken consort music. Morley and the likes. Any recomendations? Best wishes Thomas -- Thomas Schall Niederhofheimer Weg 3 D-65843 Sulzbach 06196/74519 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To get on or off this list see list information at

Re: Broken Consort

2005-02-28 Thread James A Stimson
Dear Thomas: There an easy-to-read edition published by Baylor University of Texas -- one of the few good things to come out of Texas lately. Yours, Jim

Re: Broken Consort

2005-02-28 Thread Sean Smith
Don't forget our lute-playing President... ...I mean, of the LSA ;^) Sean On Feb 28, 2005, at 3:26 PM, James A Stimson wrote: Dear Thomas: There an easy-to-read edition published by Baylor University of Texas -- one of the few good things to come out of Texas lately. Yours,