[LUTE] Re: Universale

2008-11-26 Thread Daniel Winheld
The Toro brothers use indifferently beef and ram. (perhaps not actually ram, possibly mutton, but I am not sure about that. Ram strings are brown simply because they do not use peroxides on it, while they do use it on the beef gut. Mimmo's strings are usually semi-rectified, but this may not

[LUTE] Re: You Tube/Vimeo Question

2008-11-26 Thread Peedu Timo
Could this have anything to do with the speed of the broad band? I have those problems - especially with Vimeo on my hope computer: we have quite slow broad band. At the office with fast broad band, same clips run smoothly. Timo -Alkuperäinen viesti- Lähettäjä: Rob MacKillop

[LUTE] Re: antio Ruthenica LXII

2008-11-26 Thread Peedu Timo
Very nice indeed. Thanks Roman. Timo -Alkuperäinen viesti- Lähettäjä: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Lähetetty: 26. marraskuuta 2008 9:21 Vastaanottaja: r.turovsky Kopio: lute; Le_luth Aihe: [LUTE] Re: antio Ruthenica LXII A very fascinating melody, Roman. A listened to

[LUTE] Re: Universale

2008-11-26 Thread Martyn Hodgson
I wasn't confused about bull and Toro bros! Tthe beef issue comes from Universale's earlier web page (mentioned in the Aug 2007 discussion I mentioned). I'm surprised we don't know more of the Toros business. MH --- On Tue, 25/11/08, Anthony Hind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[LUTE] Re: ok...need some more help...

2008-11-26 Thread David van Ooijen
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Omer katzir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the past few weeks I'm trying to write,tabs. becuase I'm a mac user, i pretty much have nothing... I can use Finale 2009, Sibelius 5 or Guitar pro. but they all pretty much the same bad thing. I'd say you have pretty

[LUTE] Re: You Tube/Vimeo Question

2008-11-26 Thread David Tayler
Time for a nice cheap dual core. You can pick one up on Black Friday for between $400 and $600. Check bfads dt At 01:36 PM 11/25/2008, you wrote: All, When I click on the links to You Tube and Vimeo lute videos provided in the posts (and all other posts on those sites, as well), they

[LUTE] Re: Informal performing situations.

2008-11-26 Thread David Tayler
They played at the barber shop, or outside the shop if the weather was fine. dt At 04:11 PM 11/25/2008, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/25/2008 7:04 PM On Tue, Nov 25, 2008, Christopher Stetson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm sure there will be better documented replies wassermusik I

[LUTE] Re: staff realization of tablature [was Material for sight reading]

2008-11-26 Thread David Tayler
As far a guitar goes, that is a can of worms. There's quite a few solutions, none perfect. Here's a few that I use: 1. Write the reentrant course or course on a separate staff. This is what I do, but I'm not bothered by multiple parts. 17th century musicians routinely wrote music on four staves,

[LUTE] Re: ok...need some more help...

2008-11-26 Thread David Tayler
Just plop for fronimo; or you can use Score software with macros, but the Big Packages are really crap for tab. Inexcusable, but they are bad. And they are bad for formal editions as well. dt At 01:06 AM 11/26/2008, you wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Omer katzir [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[LUTE] Re: ok...need some more help...

2008-11-26 Thread Doc Rossi
The scan function is very nice now. It was pretty unwieldy a few years ago. I've been so overwhelmed with work these last months (plus moving house yet again...) that I've been neglecting publications. I'm hoping for a quiet new year break where I can catch up. I haven't even got my own

[LUTE] Re: You Tube/Vimeo Question

2008-11-26 Thread Bernd Haegemann
try downloading it as a .flv or mp4 (much bigger!) file via www.keepvid.com (or some other similar site). Run it and watch it stutter or not :-) You will know then whether it is the connection or your hadware. B. - Original Message - From: Steve Ramey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

[LUTE] Re: Informal performing situations.

2008-11-26 Thread Ron Fletcher
I would have thought nought of playing under a fair maiden's balcony! -Original Message- From: Herbert Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 10:46 PM To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: [LUTE] Informal performing situations. In the past year or two,

[LUTE] Re: staff realization of tablature [was Material for sight reading]

2008-11-26 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
Thanks for the insight, David. I suppose an octave d course in reentrant guitar music doesn't become problematic unless the music is being transcribed for a modern guitar or other single-strung, non-reentrant instrument. It becomes tricky where the octave d is used to bridge scalar passages

[LUTE] Re: You Tube/Vimeo Question

2008-11-26 Thread Daniel Shoskes
Not necessary for vimeo. Every video has a button to click to download the video onto your computer as a regular quicktime file (bottom right hand corner). You need the software tricks for youtube. Danny On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 6:41 AM, Bernd Haegemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[LUTE] Re: ok...need some more help...

2008-11-26 Thread David Tayler
I think the dedicated note putters find great work arounds, but Fronimo seems so user friendly, plus I can just read Sarge's entire library right off the internet. I think they all have strengths. Fronimo certainly has some problems. I still think Score is the best, I still use it for a lot of

[LUTE] Re: was something, now vinyl

2008-11-26 Thread gary digman
The free market at work. Gary - Original Message - From: David Tayler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lute-cs.dartmouth.edu lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 12:43 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: was something, now vinyl snip well, that's not something intrinsic to USB; IMHO

[LUTE] Re: Universale

2008-11-26 Thread Anthony Hind
Martyn It is because you said, Note that beef (bull?) gut is mentioned, Beef is not bull, so I wondered where you had got the idea from. MP said he was probably not speaking very fluently. The main thing is that the two string types, are not identical. Anthony Le 26 nov. 08 à

[LUTE] Re: ok...need some more help...

2008-11-26 Thread Doc Rossi
Sorry to disagree, but I don't have any problems doing good work with Finale. Fronimo was okay at first, but I've had issues with the quality of the print out when exporting to DTP programs. Finale is also very, very flexible - I find it much more so than Fronimo. There is a big learning

[LUTE] Re: Universale

2008-11-26 Thread Martyn Hodgson
Eh! Beef: ' Flesh of ox, bull or cow' (concise Oxford). No need to reply MH --- On Wed, 26/11/08, Anthony Hind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Anthony Hind [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [LUTE] Re: Universale To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lute List

[LUTE] Re: You Tube/Vimeo Question

2008-11-26 Thread Guy Smith
Or maybe just some additional memory, depending on how much you have in there already. I routinely run 2GB in my Windows boxes; memory is relatively cheap these days. Guy -Original Message- From: David Tayler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 1:14 AM To:

[LUTE] Re: Universale

2008-11-26 Thread Anthony Hind
Le 26 nov. 08 à 16:53, Martyn Hodgson a écrit : Eh! Beef: ' Flesh of ox, bull or cow' (concise Oxford). No need to reply MH Of course Martyn, I don't deny that, but I just wondered why you mentioned bull and not cow, or OX as the Universale site, does. I was not suggesting

[LUTE] Re: Universale

2008-11-26 Thread Martyn Hodgson
Oh dear - because in the earlier disussion (Aug 07) I mentioned that U's website mentioned beef gut (don't know if it still does) and I thought the play on words (toro) was amusingly serendipitous- evidently not. No more complicatred than that! Nevertheless, it remains

[LUTE] Re: Universale

2008-11-26 Thread Anthony Hind
Actually, I did find it funny, as did MP, who had not thought about the Toro/Tauro association. I did not know that Purr'l gut (another nice association of qualities) was strong, but they are very cheap. or rather were cheap, the pound fluctuates so much in relation to the dollar, it is

[LUTE] Re: Universale

2008-11-26 Thread Sean Smith
Anthony, I haven't found them to be very longlasting. Certainly not as long as Aquila or Dan Larson's. Sean On Nov 26, 2008, at 9:58 AM, Anthony Hind wrote: Actually, I did find it funny, as did MP, who had not thought about the Toro/Tauro association. I did not know that Purr'l gut

[LUTE] Re: Universale

2008-11-26 Thread Martin Shepherd
Purrl gut is no more. My supplier (gourdbanjo.com) told me his supplier inherited his supplies from Donna Curry, but these stocks are now exhausted. Goodness knows where these strings came from in the first place Martin Anthony Hind wrote: Actually, I did find it funny, as did MP, who

[LUTE] Re: You Tube/Vimeo Question

2008-11-26 Thread David Tayler
Hit ctrl-alt-del to bring up task manager, then start playing the video. Click on the window on task manager that shows CPU use. If it is over 85 percent, it is the CPU! dt At 08:18 AM 11/26/2008, you wrote: Or maybe just some additional memory, depending on how much you have in there already.

[LUTE] Re: Universale

2008-11-26 Thread David Tayler
I still have some strings from Wills in Chicago. It was very tough. When driving to a concert, my windshield wiper blew off in a driving rainstorm. Visibility was zero, I tied the wiper on with a gut treble. I think a silk blend would be a good idea for sound as well as durability. dt To get

[LUTE] Re: Universale

2008-11-26 Thread howard posner
On Nov 26, 2008, at 2:32 PM, David Tayler wrote: When driving to a concert, my windshield wiper blew off in a driving rainstorm. Why was your windshield wiper driving to a concert? Visibility was zero, I tied the wiper on with a gut treble. And how did it sound? -- To get on or off this

[LUTE] Re: [LUTE] New Hoppy Francesco CD Naïve On Sale at A rkivMusic

2008-11-26 Thread Sauvage Valéry
Hello Arthur and all, As some writing said FdM was improvising dances, I find the interpretation of dances based on fantasias very interesting (and well done too... I would like to be able to do the same...) And I had great pleasure to listen to this CD, my personal little opinion is that this is