[LUTE] Beer

2009-04-23 Thread David Tayler
After Carnegie Hall (sorry, just had to say it...) I'll be in Goettingen for the big Handel festival for a whole month at the Hotel Clarion. Anyone who is near Goettingen is invited to join us for a beer! Drink beer and play lute! There are some nice wines as well, but I can already see that the

[LUTE] Ukrainian Lutes

2009-04-23 Thread Roman Turovsky
More (and better quality) iconographic material for your perusal and delectation at http://www.torban.org/mamai/ RT To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: [LUTE] Re: [LUTE] "Théorbe de pieces " - a project still just starting...

2009-04-23 Thread chriswilke
--- On Thu, 4/23/09, David van Ooijen wrote: > > On a side line, a toy theorbo tuned to d' is no longer > a toy theorbo, It would be if a French toy theorbenist was unlucky enough to travel to Venice, where pitch was higher (the baroque theorists there having decreed that the pitches of all V

[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: 13-course lute stringing

2009-04-23 Thread Mathias Rösel
These are the results for the fretboard strings with Paul Beier's string calculator. "Gut" is the column to look for as nylgut is by and large of the same charactersitics as gut. May I recommend that you round down the decimal places, e. g. 0.420 equals 0.4, 0.499 equals 0.5 and so on because dif

[LUTE] Baroque Guitar for sale

2009-04-23 Thread Alfonso Marin
Dear fellow lutenists, Just a quick note to make you know that I am selling my baroque guitar made by Sebastián Nuñez in 2005. I am progressively focusing on the renaissance repertoire and I don´t play baroque guitar anymore. I have prepared a webpage were you can have a look to some pictur

[BAROQUE-LUTE] Fidelity or L'infidelity

2009-04-23 Thread Daniel Shoskes
I'm looking at the popular Weiss A minor sonata and there are clearly lots of differences between the London and the Dresden. Has anyone done a full analysis? For those who have played it, do you have a preference (obviously the London is more 11 course friendly but does use the 13th). I've

[LUTE] Re: [LUTE] "Théorbe de pieces" - a project sti ll just starting...

2009-04-23 Thread howard posner
On Apr 22, 2009, at 1:08 PM, wi...@cs.helsinki.fi wrote: > I have stringed and tuned my archlute (Stephen Barber, 1987) to a > "Théorbe de pieces" in d (a'=392). Or you've got it in A at a'=532 -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/ind

[LUTE] Re: Is Anyone Out There??

2009-04-23 Thread Ed Durbrow
On Apr 22, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Daniel Winheld wrote: > racing the sun as it goes down into the Pacific Ocean, >somewhere beyond the Golden Gate of San Francisco. What part of the bay area are you in? I spent a few years in Marin and Sonoma counties. Nancy Carlin was one of the first lute play

[LUTE] Re: "Théorbe de pieces" - a project still just starting...

2009-04-23 Thread Arto Wikla
David van Ooijen wrote: Wikla wrote: "Théorbe de pieces" in d (a'=392). .. On a side line, a toy theorbo tuned to d' is no longer a toy theorbo, but what is an archlute strung as a theorbo? ;-) My case is even more complicated: my archlute is actually a toy archlute, because of its string l

[LUTE] Re: [LUTE] "Théorbe de pieces" - a project still ju st starting...

2009-04-23 Thread David van Ooijen
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:08 PM, wrote: > "Théorbe de pieces" in d (a'=392). This kind of high theorbo really > feels the right thing to the French "middle baroque" - the times of Way to go, Arto! On a side line, a toy theorbo tuned to d' is no longer a toy theorbo, but what is an archlute str