hi, lutelisters,
where can I find Hans Neusidler's "Beschaffens Glück ist unversammpt" ?
It's not in "Das Erste Buch".
BTW, how would that phrase be in modern german ? What does
"unversammpt" mean ?
Thank you in advance!
Manolo Laguillo
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Getting to the core of the matter in this global rumination; a trip
down memory lane (to show how far we've come...)
In the early 1970's I got my first lightly built, historically
informed lute- an 8 course tenor, Laux Maler body style, by the late
keyboard maker Hugh Gough, in New York City
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009, Mimmo Peruffo said:
> We also have to remember that the Old Ones didn't have highly
> engineered twist drills for every 0.1mm, so they may well have
> drilled some oversize holes as a matter of technical practicality.
The small twist drills we enjoy use of today are not in f
Dear Anthony,
Thank you for your kind words. You mentioned the cooperation between
lutenist, lute, and string maker. I am most fortunate to have as a best
friend _and_neighbor, Dan Larson. Dan and I are close, and my daughter
even works for him in the shop, where she makes strings, and mana
Personally i always assumed that lead weighted silk string would be dangerous
to health, thus i did not pursue it.
It should be said that silk producers habitually weight silk with all sorts of
substances: usually a dyer would be sent raw silk with a simple instructions
like: here is 100 pound
Oups, I had better correct the end of my message:
(This of course does not mean that I am NOT really very much in
favour of such research).
Or to put it more simply: I am very much in favour of such research.
AH
Le 1 mars 09 à 11:56, Anthony Hind a écrit :
Dear Ed
Your latest bar
Dear Ed
Your latest baroque lute recording is an example to us of
what can be acheived using gut.
It is not an easy thing stringing a Baroque lute in gut (compared to
a renaissance one), and your work with Dan Larson is a model of
cooperation between lutenist, lute and string maker (
> Anthony,
> I know these articles very well, but they don't answer some very
> difficult questions. As I repeatedly say, I am not against this
> theory. What I am only asking for is to call this hypothesis a
> hypothesis, taking into account the present state of research.
> That's all! I d
Martin Shepherd ha scritto:
The logic is clear enough - you can put a thin string through a
bigger hole, but not vice-versa. So if we have some well
authenticated original bridges with small holes (a few would do - it
doesn't have to be a majority) then we have to explain t
