You can't put a price on instant gratification.
On the other hand, you can get a world class theorbo in six months
for euro 5000. I think you have to play the instrument first, then
see if you want it.
some of van der waals instruments are very nice. I would pay a high
price for a really good in
Hi-I have often wondered about van der Waals, like is he still building and
where? Does he still take orders?
Sterling
- Original Message
From: Alfonso Marin
To: Arto Wikla ; lutelist Net
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 5:16:00 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Theorbo by Nic. Nic. B. van der
Dear Arto,
Nico van der Waals is an emblematic maker with a reputation as solid
as Michael Lowe. I payed 8250 Euro for this theorbo back in 2002. You
certainly can get cheaper instruments but if you are really interested
on playing something really special by one of the pioneers of lute
m
On 2/13/2009, "Alfonso Marin" wrote:
>I am offering my Theorbo by NIco van der Waals for sale.
..
> Selling price is 7900 .
The instrument really looks very beautiful!
But is this really the price level of today? 7800 euros for a quality
theorbo?
In that case I am a rich man!
On the othe
Martyn--
I'll second the recommendation for abctab2ps. It does a variety of
tab styles as well as staff notation (multiple staves, an assortment of
clefs, lyrics), and tab with staff. And it's free. Christoph Dalitz keeps
the program well-maintained, and the manual for it is very clear.
On Feb 13, 2009, at 4:18 PM, wrote:
> If a singer needs to sing it lower, that is more than a whim.
> Often vocal
> material is composed at the extremity of the average range to
> achieve a
> particular musical effect; when the original pitch was not aD0 this
> further strains the vocalist.
Agre
I both sing and play (tho not at the same time, a limitation).
If a singer needs to sing it lower, that is more than a whim. Often vocal
material is composed at the extremity of the average range to achieve a
particular musical effect; when the original pitch was not a=440 this
further strains th
Transposing any song is easy. You just sing it lower, or higher, or
whatever. I imagine it's transposing the lute part that poses the
problems. If you're particular about playing the exact thing that
Dowland wrote, only to pitch it a step lower, then the best thing
would be to play it on a lute
>I could tune down to 415 but I'm not sure she'll go for that.
If your string tension is not too light, down a half step often
works. Depending on other factors, of course, the lute may sound even
better. Down a whole step could be disaster without a whole
re-stringing job, and we do not wa
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009, Martyn Hodgson said:
Several have mentioned lilypond.
It is a work in progress and has demonstrated to me a lot of growing pains
and inconsistancies. It can do nice work, but at some cost; rather like
the initial versions of Quark Express. You will need lots of room on dis
Rebutting myself here, any new mind tricks for a new situation (good
practice at home) can go right out the window once you're actually
doing stuff live in concert; if you have the time written out
transcriptions in any format that you can read/play in your sleep is
going to be far preferable o
Read the notation as if you were playing in the original key on an A
lute. Any experience reading guitar notation (except for the 2 staff
actual octave pitch) one simply pretends to be back on the guitar,
but with an additional high a string. Of course A tuned theorbists
would also find this pr
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009, Caroline Usher said:
>I could tune down to 415 but I'm not sure she'll go for that.
so long as it holds for the whole program and doesnt delay things, why
not?
Best if you restring so the instrument is still lively.
--
Dana Emery
To get on or off this list see l
I routinely play lute songs down a whole step and that is normally
the best transposition.
If reading it down a step is daunting, just download the Fronimo
file from Sarge's website and have the computer do a rough
transposition. You will have to clean up some of the voice leading.
I also keep
Tune the lute down to English consort pitch (a-392, the whole step below
a=440). A very nice sound, really!
On the other hand, "Time stands still" plays quite well in F, with F 7th
course. "Come ..." not as well.
alexander
>A singer has asked me to accompany her on "Come heavy sleep" and "Ti
A singer has asked me to accompany her on "Come heavy sleep" and "Time
stands still." The problem is, she wants to sing them in F (down a
whole step) because it's a better range for her voice. Has anyone
tried transposing them down? Any thoughts on how well (or not) this
works?
Another nice facility of the full version of Finale over the very severely
limited Finale Notepad is that the full version of Finale does have a
fully-functional "Rapid Entry" tool based entirely upon keystrokes. With a
little practice, the basics of notation move very quickly with it.
..And did
Finale Notepad does have some pretty severe limitations (or at least did)
compared to the full version, like the inability to notate modulation or
time signature changes. However, its greatest current limitation may be
that the new version of Notepad is no longer free. You can download it for
US$
Caveats for Finale Notepad:
This is a very very pared-down version of finale. That means that you
get all the problems without the facilities to fix them (spider-thin
staff lines and barlines, which are more than an annoyance to folk
with less-than-perfect vision, including us older folk) and the
O
> >All these programs do not run easily on windows, but it's possible to
> > install even on windows or apple OS a virtual pc with linux where you can
> > run this.
>
> This is not true.
> In the past installing Lilypond on a Windows system was a nightmare but now
> it is very easy
Denemo, NoteE
Chris, it was Arto kindly brought the site to our attention.
and also mentioned the Bataille facsimiles of which there are six on
the site.
I just scanned the data base for "luth"
and found two other facsimiles : Robinson's TheSchooleOfMusicke
and Antoine-Francisque's Le-Tresor-dOrphee
http://ww
-Original Message-
From: Taco Walstra [mailto:wals...@science.uva.nl]
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 9:51 AM
To: hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk; lutelist
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Staff notation software - views?
On Friday 13 February 2009, Martyn Hodgson rattled on the keyboard:
>I'm sorry fo
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:32 AM, wrote:
> Dear Martyn,
> There is a simplified free version of Finale called 'Notepad'
> which is worth trying - see www.finalemusic.com
I'd second that: excellent program.
David
--
***
David van Ooijen
davidvanooi...@gmail.com
www
Dear all,
I am offering my Theorbo by NIco van der Waals for sale. It is
an excellent instrument in mint condition. I am selling it because I am
developing some back problems and I would like to concentrate on my
archlute continuo playing. It is also quite large (82 / 167 cm) for my
Dear Martyn,
There is a simplified free version of Finale called 'Notepad'
which is worth trying - see www.finalemusic.com
Best wishes,
Denys
Quoting Martyn Hodgson :
>
>
>I'm sorry for introducing a non-lute note into these communications,
>but I'd be grateful for views on the
Martyn,
if you are happy with a somewhat old-fashioned user interface (i.e.
typing in text, like to 'tab')
have a look at abctab2ps, which can produce beautiful scores and handle
lute tablature as well.
[1]http://www.lautengesellschaft.de/cdmm/
Best regards
Jan Johansson
On Friday 13 February 2009, Martyn Hodgson rattled on the keyboard:
>I'm sorry for introducing a non-lute note into these communications,
>but I'd be grateful for views on the best FREE computer software for
>writing staff notation; ie something like Sibelius or Finale, but
>free.
Try Lilypond. It's not like Finale or Sibelius, but it's much better,
and free.
It's take a while to hang on in it, but it worth the time.
On Feb 13, 2009, at 10:24 AM, Martyn Hodgson wrote:
I'm sorry for introducing a non-lute note into these communications,
but I'd be grateful for v
I'm sorry for introducing a non-lute note into these communications,
but I'd be grateful for views on the best FREE computer software for
writing staff notation; ie something like Sibelius or Finale, but
free. I've tried Muscore which, seems to me, to have some problems but
perhap
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