Garry,
Do as you please and mind your bizz. Everybody does, me included. I have gut
strings for basses because I like their short impulse and their quick
fading. I don't like overwound nylon strings, ringing on and on, forcing
players to stop them. Full stop.
What I was reacting to, was the word
Curiously, the small seems to be set up for 1x1, 5x2 on the fingerboard:
http://quality1trader.co.uk/musical-instrument/strings/lute/theorbo-bass-lute/
Their instrument descriptions appear to be cut and pasted from the
Barber Harris website. their string lengths for the small and medium
On 29 August 2011 10:41, Edward C. Yong ky...@pacific.net.sg wrote:
guitars, but tiorbini and chittare attiorbate as well? I was under the
It's my guess that they happen to have drawings of these instruments
without really knowing what they are. Calling them theorbos can be a
bit of a
They're also doing baroq'ulele :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvP-8kO6okQ
..
Val
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Their tiorbino (Theorbo Bass Lute small ...) has (Stephen and Sandi's)
description of the theorbood guitar (Theorbo Bass Lute medium). It
even comes with Fontanelli's music!
David - enough of this nonsense, back to work
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David van Ooijen
I suppose you're talking about this:
http://quality1trader.co.uk/musical-instrument/strings/lute/theorbo-bass-lut
e-
medium/
You can watch it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNJaYInbbhs
Mathias
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Hi Bill,
Thanks for your kind words. Really I don't think of this as a philosophy but
rather common sense.
Many woods would be appropriate I've used apple, maple, boxwood and even
stained beech on a number of occasions with good results.
I've also used rosewood and ebony A softer wood can be
Mathias,
Absolutely! That's why I add those ridiculous punctuation smiley-faces...
:-) No aggression here... No soapbox either. :-) My apologies if you
were offended. Besides, I'm a yank living in the woods in Michigan, so
don't be expecting too much... :-)
Garry
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Yes, fundamentally! aka French lute, etc... Lovely, ain't it... :-) And
I can tune it as I please, although there is some very nice stuff written
for it as tuned. Great link, thank you!
Garry
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From: Mathias Rösel
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 5:36 AM
To:
Not to be argumentative, but... :-) I spent over 25 years building and
playing classic guitars, and this theorobed guitar is a member of the lute
family, beyond doubt... But, call it as you will, and no doubt Stephen and
Sandi are correct looking from their background. This stuff greatly
NEW PUBLICATION BY THE UK LUTE SOCIETY :
Gilbert Isbin, 10 Lute Songs is a collection of 10 attractive new lute
songs by the noted composer, setting poems by Marcus Cumberlege, in an
accessible modern style. The accompaniments are for 6-course lute, and
both lute and voice
The point is, it has only five courses on the fingerboard. Playing any
kind of lute or theorbo music on it would mean redrilling the bridge
to accomodate six, hazardous enough on a 'decent' instrument, but I'm
not sure this one will be up to it.
David
On 29 August 2011 15:17, Garry Warber
Oh boy, here we go... There is a lot of music that can be played upon it...
When's the last time you fingered a note below the fifth course? ANYWAY, I
retired completely from the guitar world, gave all my instruments and such
to my granddaughter, and left because of burn out on the
Another point for modern versions of these extended neck diapason
burdened instruments- modern builders know how fickle, indecisive, and
variable are the needs of us modern players; it is a simple matter to
have in place pre-drilled extra bridge holes, long enough nut to
Plugging and re-drilling a bridge to suit whatever configuration a player
has need of seems commonplace enough. If a re-drill isn't practical, an
all-out and appropriately drilled replacement is pretty trivial in the grand
scheme of luthier labor. If anything, these tweaks/fixes are probably
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