[LUTE] Re: List confusion

2007-12-18 Thread Ron Fletcher
The answer is to Forward the reply to the Lute-list. Ron (UK) -Original Message- From: Stewart McCoy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 4:28 PM To: Lute Net Subject: [LUTE] List confusion Dear Taco, I agree. Doing what you suggest might also help to rid us of

[LUTE] Re: Personal Awesomeness Index

2007-12-18 Thread Ron Fletcher
I remember the 60's well enough that I still enjoy listening to that stuff once in a while. David R Hear, hear. IMHO a lot of good tunes came out then. My indicator of a good tune was if I can whistle it and someone else recognise it, it is a good tune. How much of today's music can be

[LUTE] Re: Lauffensteiner

2007-12-18 Thread Ron Fletcher
I've been looking for an edition of the works of Wolff Jacob Lauffensteiner, but without success. Just like a Rolling Stone? Ron (UK) To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: Lauffensteiner

2007-12-18 Thread Taco Walstra
On Tuesday 18 December 2007 05:22, David Rastall rattled on the keyboard: Hi david, I think you refer to the austrian edition Musik alter Meister, Akademische Druck und Verlag Graz, 2 präludien und fünf Partien für Laute with staff and tab. Don't know if it's still available. Taco Dear Wisdom,

[LUTE] Re: Lauffensteiner

2007-12-18 Thread Arthur Ness
You need to go fishing, David. In the World Catalogue I got 15 hits, but these included guitar arrangements and CDs. There are about 6 editions of Lauffensteiner's lute music, incl. two facsimile editions. A major edition is Musik alter Meister, vol. 30, mentioned by Eugene and others. For

[LUTE] Re: Lauffensteiner

2007-12-18 Thread Charles Browne
They were available on the Fronimo site. Both ensemble and solo works.I haven't checked recently but I think? they were intabulations by Doug Towne? There is,or was, an Edition of Academische Druck- u.Verlagsanstalt under the series title Musik Alter Meister (1975 - General Editor Hans Radke) and

[LUTE] Re: List confusion

2007-12-18 Thread Martin Eastwell
Dear Stewart The trouble is that at least with my email software (Microsoft Entourage), simply clicking on reply, automatically inserts the address of the person who posted the message, and does not insert the address of the list. So it takes a conscious effort to change things round. If, like

[LUTE] Re: List confusion

2007-12-18 Thread Roman Turovsky
This has nothing to do with your Microsoft Entourage. It is a VERY NICE setting that prevents our innermost unflattering opinions escaping into the list. The italophone lutelist works the same way, for the same reasons, based on ample PRECEDENT. RT - Original Message - From: Martin

[LUTE] Re: List confusion

2007-12-18 Thread Taco Walstra
On Tuesday 18 December 2007 13:30, Roman Turovsky rattled on the keyboard: This has nothing to do with your Microsoft Entourage. It is a VERY NICE setting that prevents our innermost unflattering opinions escaping into the list. The italophone lutelist works the same way, for the same reasons,

[LUTE] Re: List confusion

2007-12-18 Thread Roman Turovsky
On Tuesday 18 December 2007 13:30, Roman Turovsky rattled on the keyboard: This has nothing to do with your Microsoft Entourage. It is a VERY NICE setting that prevents our innermost unflattering opinions escaping into the list. The italophone lutelist works the same way, for the same

[LUTE] Lauffensteiner

2007-12-18 Thread Stewart McCoy
Dear David, The Lute Society have published some music by Lauffensteiner. A Google search for Lute Society + Lauffensteiner produced the following: LAUFFENSTEINER, Wolff Jacob, 1676-1754 Partie in B Flat Major for 11-Course Baroque Lute, Entrée, Courente, Bourée, Menuet, Guique, Sarabande.

[LUTE] Re: List confusion

2007-12-18 Thread Wayne Cripps
From: Martin Eastwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] If, like me, you are careless and forgetful, This is one of the major issues of humanity, and we all have to deal with it constantly... There is a constant traffic of messages on the lute list, and there is a constant back channel of comments in

[LUTE] Re: rehashing old arguments

2007-12-18 Thread Omer katzir
Great :-) more info on the net! not that i need any. now...i just need to find a nice master class :-) On Dec 17, 2007, at 7:54 PM, Wayne Cripps wrote: Hi Lute Thumb Freaks! The majority of what the old ones actually wrote about the use of the RH thumb can be found here..

[LUTE] Wikiality

2007-12-18 Thread Andrew Gibbs
A helpful description of the lute found on the Wikipedia Renaissance music page: Lute: The lute is simply any plucked instrument without a neck. In the medieval ages it had 4 or 5 Strings and was considered a much more dignified instrument that the guitar. It is similar in its

[LUTE] Re: Wikiality

2007-12-18 Thread Ray Brohinsky
Andrew, It is hard to read between the tears. ray On Dec 18, 2007 11:21 AM, Andrew Gibbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A helpful description of the lute found on the Wikipedia Renaissance music page: Lute: The lute is simply any plucked instrument without a neck. In the medieval ages it had 4 or

[LUTE] Re: List confusion

2007-12-18 Thread Anthony Hind
Wayne I must admit acceptation of back channel comments worries me. I know they exist, but should they be encouraged? I don't think that is at all what you are saying. You are no doubt just taking them as a fact of life, one of the major issues of humanity, but just ackowledging them

[LUTE] Diagram of tendons.

2007-12-18 Thread Herbert Ward
Sometimes I hear that the ring finger shares tendons with its neighbors, so that no level of technique can achieve perfect indepdence of fingers. I've never seen a good diagram showing exactly how this works. For example, I don't know whether the sharing occurs for the flexor tendons, the

[LUTE] Re: Wikiality

2007-12-18 Thread Christopher Stetson
Yes, I agree, it must be preserved! I remember reading a published version of a child's poem about Spring which included the line: Birds chirped, frogs burped. As the editor pointed out, how much poorer would the world be if a well-meaning adult had changed it to the more common croaked Best

[LUTE] Re: Wikiality

2007-12-18 Thread Omer katzir
I'm not really sure we should keep it that way... On Dec 18, 2007, at 8:32 PM, Christopher Stetson wrote: Yes, I agree, it must be preserved! I remember reading a published version of a child's poem about Spring which included the line: Birds chirped, frogs burped. As the editor pointed

[LUTE] Re: Wikiality

2007-12-18 Thread Arne Keller
- Original Message - From: Omer katzir [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 7:37 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Wikiality I'm not really sure we should keep it that way... Sure we should. It's up to us looters to preserve the mystery surrounding

[LUTE] Re: tuner

2007-12-18 Thread Craig Robert Pierpont
Hello Howard, Welcome to the Lute list. Thanks for the review of this tuner. Très intéressant. On the subject of electronic tuners, Does anybody have any experience with the StroboSoft Software tuners from Peterson? Craig Craig R. Pierpont Another Era Lutherie www.anotherera.com George

[LUTE] Re: Wikiality

2007-12-18 Thread Narada
Obviously written by a 'substance entrepreneur' LOL -Original Message- From: Ray Brohinsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 December 2007 16:24 To: Andrew Gibbs Cc: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Net Subject: [LUTE] Re: Wikiality Andrew, It is hard to read between the tears. ray On Dec 18,

[LUTE] Re: tuner

2007-12-18 Thread Anthony Hind
George This tuner does sound interesting. It appears to becompletely prorammable, up to 14 presets? I had a look at the site you indicate, and it also looks much smaller than the Petersen, which would be a great advantage. I presume there is a mic in? When you say it will probably go lower

[LUTE] Re: Personal Awesomeness Index

2007-12-18 Thread Narada
Pagey bought the 6/12 specifically for Stairway to Heaven, seems he had various guitar parts worked out in his head and needed something a bit different. He also plays it on the 'Rain Song'. It's been valued at £50,000 but it’s more likely to be priceless. Other notable users; John McLaughlin -

[LUTE] Continuo is the king/queen! (WAS: Awesomeness Index)

2007-12-18 Thread wikla
Hi Ron and other lutenists On 12/18/2007, Ron Fletcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember the 60's well enough that I still enjoy listening to that stuff once in a while. Yep! John Mayall's Bluesbreaker's Crusade was the bible of our blues band in school times... And our pieces lasted at

[LUTE] Re: Continuo is the king/queen!

2007-12-18 Thread David Rastall
On Dec 18, 2007, at 3:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...Start playing continuo! It is hard, really hard, in the beginning, but it is worth of all the troubles! I'll take your word for it that it's worth it in the end, Arto. ;-) I've been trying to teach myself continuo for most of this

[LUTE] Cotinuo RULEZ!

2007-12-18 Thread wikla
Sorry! I only modernized the subject of my previous mail... ;-) Arto On 12/18/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ron and other lutenists On 12/18/2007, Ron Fletcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember the 60's well enough that I still enjoy listening to that stuff

[LUTE] Re: Wikiality

2007-12-18 Thread Daniel Winheld
Andrew, It is hard to read between the tears. ray Read further: Lutenist: The lutenist is simply an instrument plucker without a neck. He considers himself a much more dignified plucker than the guitarist, although he is similar in construction to the guitarist with the exclusion of his

[LUTE] Re: Wikiality

2007-12-18 Thread Ron Fletcher
Lutenist: The lutenist is simply an instrument plucker without a neck. Without a neck? He couldn't be a violinist either, - he'd never get it under his chin! This is a great thread for Christmas-cracker jokes. I had no idea Wikipedea could be so funny! Happy Christmas Ron (UK) To get

[LUTE] Re: Continuo is the king/queen!

2007-12-18 Thread wikla
On 12/18/2007, David Rastall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been trying to teach myself continuo for most of this year, and I'm having a terrible time with it: it seems that the more I learn, the less I know! Don't worry! Just play 3rds when you don't know what to do. And take care to know,

[LUTE] Re: Continuo is the king/queen!

2007-12-18 Thread wikla
it seems that the more I learn, the less I know! By the way, just that seems to be the proper (and VERY classical) way of learning! (Compare for ex. what Blaise Pascal wrote about knowledge.) Arto To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] Re: Personal Awesomeness Index

2007-12-18 Thread Lute
As far as I know Jimmy Page only ever used the doubleneck live. On the studio version of stairway to heaven, the solo is played on a telecaster and I think the electric 12 string is also a Fender. He also uses the doubleneck live for the Song Remains The Same/Rainsong block because the rain song

[LUTE] Re: tuner

2007-12-18 Thread LGS-Europe
Welcome, Howard, and thank you for bringing this to our attention. I have tuning forks in 415, 430 and 440, three tuners (the first, a programmable second, a tiny clip-on third), tell myself I should only tune by ear, but am sorely tempted by this new gadget ... David - Original Message

[LUTE] Re: Wikiality

2007-12-18 Thread Daniel Winheld
Without a neck? He couldn't be a violinist either, - he'd never get it under his chin! Where do you think treble viol players come from? Wickedpedia- a never ending resource! -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html