Re: alternative moral ending

2005-05-16 Thread maggie1
At least the cricket had one good summer. Something the ant will never know. Remeber, the early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. Gary Digman for those familiar with the aesop story of the > industrious ant who works-works-works all summer long

Re: Ed Martin injured

2005-05-16 Thread guy_and_liz Smith
Umm, no. Duluth is well below the 49th parallel, which is the northern boundary of the US from central Minnesota to Washington (around 2000 miles), and a ways from the Canadian border even at that longitude. Seattle is actually further north, and is still well south of the border. That said, I v

RE: Lute Sighting

2005-05-16 Thread Stuart LeBlanc
Here's an lute sighting in the organ of VRAIE haute culture Americaine: http://www.cartoonbank.com/product_details.asp?sid=119421 -Original Message- From: Craig Robert Pierpont [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 7:24 PM To: Lute List Subject: Re: Lute Sighting Oh goo

Re: Lute Sighting

2005-05-16 Thread Sal Salvaggio
I wonder if the Simpson's are related to Christopher Simpson, author of The Division-Violist (London, 1659)? - if he is - there could be some manuscripts in the attic!! __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the bes

Re: Lute Sighting

2005-05-16 Thread lute9
The Lute was seen in Simpsons previously, some years back. And more recently it was seen in Shreck, 2 actually, one of them lefthanded. RT > Oh goody! I'm so glad that the lute has finally made it to this level of > American haut culture. We need hide in shame no more. > Craig > > Leonard Willia

Re: Lute Sighting

2005-05-16 Thread Daniel Shoskes
He sang "I've got a dragon in my dungeon". I guess that a 4 course instrument makes sense when played by people with 3 fingers. On May 16, 2005, at 8:24 PM, Craig Robert Pierpont wrote: > Oh goody! I'm so glad that the lute has finally made it to this > level of American haut culture. We ne

Re: Lute Sighting

2005-05-16 Thread Howard Posner
Craig Robert Pierpont wrote: > Oh goody! I'm so glad that the lute has finally made it to this level of > American haut culture. We need hide in shame no more. It wasn't the lute's first first appearance on The Simpsons. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmout

Re: Lute Sighting

2005-05-16 Thread Craig Robert Pierpont
Oh goody! I'm so glad that the lute has finally made it to this level of American haut culture. We need hide in shame no more. Craig Leonard Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Last night's season finale of The Simpson's featured a lute solo by Otto, the school bus driver, at the Medieval Festiva

Re: Lute Sighting

2005-05-16 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
At 04:58 PM 5/16/2005, Leonard Williams wrote: > Last night's season finale of The Simpson's featured a lute solo by >Otto, the school bus driver, at the Medieval Festival. He finished his set >by bashing and burning his lute. The instrument appeared to be a very early >four-course model.

Re: Lute Sighting

2005-05-16 Thread corun
Leonard wrote: > Last night's season finale of The Simpson's featured a lute solo by >Otto, the school bus driver, at the Medieval Festival. He finished his set >by bashing and burning his lute. The instrument appeared to be a very early >four-course model. And I missed it? DOH! Craig

Lute Sighting

2005-05-16 Thread Leonard Williams
Last night's season finale of The Simpson's featured a lute solo by Otto, the school bus driver, at the Medieval Festival. He finished his set by bashing and burning his lute. The instrument appeared to be a very early four-course model. Leonard Williams To get on or off this list see

Re: Gone 'the whole hog'!

2005-05-16 Thread bill kilpatrick
check out www.rainsong.com in hawaii. they make 100% graphite resin guitars with the "classic" graphite sound. it's a beautiful building material - a solid graphite lute of one-piece construction can't be far off. i have a crafter mandolin with a polyresin bowl (similar in principle to an ovatio

Gone 'the whole hog'!

2005-05-16 Thread Ron Fletcher
An article in our local newspaper, The Loughborough Echo this week reads like this. "GUITAR HEROES. A new type of guitar that sounds and plays like more pricey models, but is made almost entirely of plastic, has been invented by boffins at Loughborough University. And they could have top-end man

Strong emotion in early music.

2005-05-16 Thread Herbert Ward
Over the weekend I attended Ballet Austin's "Swan Lake". Tchaikovsky did a masterful job of depicting strong emotion, which is (according to my piano books) a hallmark of the Romantic era. I find myself wondering what our lutenist/EM forebears thought about strong emotion in music. Was it somet

Re: Ed Martin injured

2005-05-16 Thread Bernd Haegemann
Dear all, I would like to send Ed a card, but I'm just waiting for an air mail(!) letter from the USA, which has been sent 7 days ago... (what sort of planes do they use nowadays?) best wishes Bernd To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin

Re: Ed Martin injured

2005-05-16 Thread Craig Allen
Nancy wrote: > >Ed Martin lives in Duluth, Minnesota. For those of you not familiar with >small cities in the American Midwest it's located on the US/Canadian >border, several hour's drive north of Minneapolis. There are about 15 lute >players in the Minneapolis area but not very many where Ed l

Re: Nonskid lute pad

2005-05-16 Thread Mathias Rösel
reason why I chose rubber, rather than chamois, is that it has more adhesion. Disadvantage is that rubber goes dry and loses its adhesive power after some time so that it has to be replaced. Mathias "Carl Donsbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > >> Hello all, > >> The Belgian Lute Society lute ma

Re: interesting lute trivia

2005-05-16 Thread Mathias Rösel
>> Engl. flute > Provenc. fleute > Lat. flatus > flare (blow, breathe). > And I do hope there is no reflection on the sound of the flute - flatus > being the medical term for an expulsion of sometimes noxious gasses from > one's nether region. depends on your fa**ing / breathing technique, I shou