Thanks to Kerry and for all the other positive comments I've received.
Performance is everything, whether you are a beginner or a long-standing
professional. What I like about the technology we have now is the ability to
see the lute being played. I love watching beginners perform, and hope that
Fuenllana has a few moments where the third finger has to cover two courses,
four strings. I could get it right about 90 per cent of the time by using
one finger, as the courses on my vihuela were very close. But it is a case
of swings and roundabouts. Sometimes we want the courses close,
Dear Jean-Marie,
I was rather thinking of villages as far remote as Austria, Poland,
German speaking countries, where booklets abounded with French lute
music, yet teachers were far.
Mathias
Jean-Marie Poirier [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
Well, Mathias, in those days like now Paris was just one
Hi, all,
I received this from Alexander Vokaria, and he asked me to share. Hope it's
useful.
Best,
Chris.
voka [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/19/2008 11:17 AM
Please share:
In response to the silk strings questions.
I started making silk strings about ten years ago, as a process to
discover rather
The most recent one I have for him is
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but the last time I contacted him I had not reply.
Monica
- Original Message -
From: Stewart McCoy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Lute Net lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 11:20 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Alain Veylitt
I
Perhaps, in the near future, I might talk about the toroidal strings
made by Charles Besnainou. He has succeeded in making both silk and
even cotton strings for bowed instruments with this method, and he
claims they both work well in this use; but I don't think he has
tried this for lutes.
