[LUTE] Re: Are there any Harmony Assistant users here making lute tab?

2007-11-19 Thread Ed Durbrow
You go to the Preferences and click on Fonts then Tablature notes. On Nov 18, 2007, at 11:38 PM, Eric Crouch wrote: How do you change the tablature font? I've only got Melody, admittedly, but I think it's behaviour is the same as that of Harmony and all I can seem to change is text fonts.

[LUTE] Re: Are there any Harmony Assistant users here making lute tab?

2007-11-19 Thread Eric Crouch
Ah, thanks, I hadn't spotted that. Eric Crouch PS Apologies, that last email was meant to go to the list, but I seem to have sent it direct instead! On 19 Nov 2007, at 08:13, Ed Durbrow wrote: You go to the Preferences and click on Fonts then Tablature notes. On Nov 18, 2007, at 11:38 PM,

[LUTE] online string calculator working again

2007-11-19 Thread Benjamin Stehr
Hi, after a lot of server downtimes, moving to different servers, incompatibilities with newer versions of asp.net and so on my online string calculator is working again. You can find it at: http://calc.lauten.com/en/strcal_en.htm the manual is at: http://www.resoldo-milare.de/calc.htm I hope

[LUTE-BUILDER] Re: toirtoiseshell fingerboards

2007-11-19 Thread Sam Moore
Red Bear Trading (http://www.redbeartrading.com/) make picks out of a synthetic tortoise shell (I believe it's made from animal protein, so there's that...). I have several, and they're pretty convincing. I also believe it's the same material John Greven has been using for pickguards and

[LUTE] Tuning blues

2007-11-19 Thread Stewart McCoy
Dear David, The temperament known as Valotti was presumably invented by the eponymous Valotti. If keyboards are tuned to Valotti, one should tune one's theorbo to 6th comma meantone, which will mean that all the white notes sound well together, but the black notes won't sound so good on the

[LUTE] Re: Tuning blues

2007-11-19 Thread howard posner
Ever try just tuning down a semitone and playing a G instrument? On Nov 19, 2007, at 10:03 AM, Stewart McCoy wrote: My theorbo is tuned at A=415, and is not designed to go up to A=440. However, if I need to play at A=440, I get round the problem by turning the 14th course (G) down to

[LUTE] Tuning blues

2007-11-19 Thread Stewart McCoy
Dear Howard, Yes. I tuned the theorbo down to G in 1995 for Purcell concerts involving music in flat keys. However, to be safe, I resorted to copying the music out in tablature. I can happily read figured bass on a G lute and an A theorbo, but when I swap the tunings around, mistakes start to

[LUTE] Re: Tuning blues

2007-11-19 Thread howard posner
I know the feeling. For me, every now and then a correct chord creeps in. It's very gratifying when that happens. On Nov 19, 2007, at 3:29 PM, Stewart McCoy wrote: I can happily read figured bass on a G lute and an A theorbo, but when I swap the tunings around, mistakes start to creep in.

[LUTE] Re: Tuning blues

2007-11-19 Thread Stephan Olbertz
In case someone doesn't know it, there's an enjoyable paper by Ross Duffin online: Why I hate Valotti (or is it Young?): http://music.cwru.edu/duffin/ Regards, Stephan Am 19 Nov 2007 um 18:03 hat Stewart McCoy geschrieben: Dear David, The temperament known as Valotti was presumably

[LUTE] Re: Tuning Blues

2007-11-19 Thread Daniel Winheld
Hi Rebecca- love to help, but we need to know the string length. I don't know the extreme limit for a D [EMAIL PROTECTED], but when I had a short scale bass for solo work, I could get up to E @A=440 on 72 cm. w/nylon before the instrument's response pooped out. I usually kept it at 415 to 420