mouth harp is (was) used a lot down south (sicily) where it's called a
spaccapensiero or thought breaker. i imagine an evening of boing-boing
would disturb anyone's tranquility.
bad karma days, endured with equanimity and grace, bring good karma days ...
sort of a zen/zwingli
Francesco Tribioli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Not spaccapensiero but
scacciapensieri, which is thoughts expeller
because supposedly one starts to play it and forgot his cares...
... and his far from perfect command of the italian language - scusami.
- bill
The guitarish aspect of interpretation is mainly due to Oliver's
playing. He is a guitar player pretending also to play lute. I am not
sure which CD you have listend to. I seem to remember he recorded one on
a lute.
Actually I wouldn't care to much about that instrument if Oliver, Andrè
and the
I spoke with Markus Dietrich who visted a talk bei Benno Scheu. Actually
it seems to be very interesting but not as sensational as the LF site
makes us believe.
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
Von: Bernd Haegemann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gesendet: Montag, 31. Juli 2006 09:59
An: Howard
It's deja-vu al over again. Didn't we go through this once already ?
The LSO [Lute Shaped Object] is louder because its metal frets
don't absorb energy like compliant gut frets ?
In the words of Berke Breathed another beautiful theory destroyed by
ugly facts.
It just doesn't stand up in
I found a lute reference in a rather unexpected setting: the lap of
Sherlock Holmes! (The Italian Secretary, a new Sherlock Holmes mystery
taking place mainly in Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland.)
Dr. John Watson, as usual, narrates:
An ancient stringed instrument was perched across
The novel is by Caleb Carr.
I found a lute reference in a rather unexpected setting: the lap of
Sherlock Holmes! (The Italian Secretary, a new Sherlock Holmes mystery
taking place mainly in Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland.)
Dr. John Watson, as usual, narrates:
An ancient stringed
In a biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer I was reading recently, it said that
he sang to the the playing of his lute one night - ca 1923 or so...
- Original Message -
From: Leonard Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Lute List lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 7:13 PM
Subject:
Dear all:
As this item was not written by Arthur Conan Doyle, it strikes me as
preposterous -- as bad as most Holmes pastiches (which would make it pretty
bad). It
takes Holmes out of the 19th century; his violin playing was never portrayed
as antiquarian.
On the other hand, Holmes was
