Hello,
I just ordered a lute strap for my soon-to-come liuto attiorbato from
José Antonio Ahumada in France. This was very difficult because the
chello.fr email I had did not work. However I managed to phone him
(merci Philippe) and his new email is:
m.ahumadacas...@numericable.com
He
Alexandar and Anthony,
I find this correspondance very interesting since I'm considering
wether I can possibly afford to string all my lutes with Mimmo's new
loaded gut but am being equivocal due to the high cost: ie
many A-L-100s. The possibility of do-it-yourself loading to
I will gladly share with you the process i have used. It might be a starting
point for anyone. Unwillingness to spend money so many times led to great
discoveries!..
For me a difficult point to begin with, was to get a smooth string in the end.
While gut string can be polished and the short
Many thanks for this detailed reply - I'll have to digest it before
seeing if I'm capable of doing anything realistic.
But first a couple more questions:
1. As an adhesive to bind the filaments together you use agar/salt:
could one use an adhesive like PVA which is flexible and
Martyn,
There are a myriad ways to avoid actually PLAYING them
lutes..
RT
- Original Message -
From: Martyn Hodgson hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk
To: alexander voka...@verizon.net
Cc: lute List lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 10:38 AM
Thanks - lovely - and thanks for the introduction to the ArsAntigua
website.
Andrew
On 23 Mar 2009, at 22:42, Jeff wrote:
I recently recorded one of Ortiz's pieces for a podcast--violone
soloist, virginal and bass lute accompany (not theorbo, as the
intro says.) Simple chords, occasional
Roman,
I suppose there must be. My work mostly involves theorbo (and
sometimes guitar) continuo but I try to play other lutes when I can.
I'm becoming increasingly disenchanted with the basses I generally use
on these (usually from the 6th course down) which are Kurschner KN (ie
A good enough reason to stick to Savarez copperwounds and get on with it,
idnit?
RT
- Original Message -
From: Martyn Hodgson hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk
To: Roman Turovsky lu...@polyhymnion.org
Cc: lute List lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 11:15 AM
Subject: Re:
I have uploaded 2 more videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU8wfH73Ijk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JH33zs6Sqw
Performed by Julian Kytasty and yours truly-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AkhRv39LuA
and I have also embedded them in the page where the scores are located
Not the PVA. If applied on top, it produces a rubbery film which does not quite
work under the fingers, and wears on the bends and probably meeting the frets.
You could experiment with it, of course, but my feeling is that it does not
really work. I find a comment in my database sound...
I think it is a blessing that there are those pioneers, who will test the
new/old string technology, and tell the results to us others!
Otherwise we still were playing with nylon strings? Or perhaps - without
the early pioneers - we were still playing with gut strings?
Anyhow, as a player, I
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