[LUTE] Re: Android app for recording lute

2012-04-30 Thread Adam Olsen
I guess I should state that I don't care if it's quality, just that I can here myself play and look for places I can improve. I will look for an app that might have some preamp or gain settings On Apr 30, 2012 2:34 PM, "Toby" <[1]t...@tobiah.org> wrote: On 04/30/2012 01:21 PM, A

[LUTE] Re: Zamboni re-tubed...

2012-04-30 Thread tom
Arto, I think you do a fantastic job of driving a zamboni ! ( ... http://www.zamboni.com/ ) Really very nice music and very nicely played. Thanks, Tom > Dear lutenists, > > just in case our List will come alive again: > > I re-recorded some Zamboni when warming up my 10-course "Vieil Accord" >

[LUTE] Re: Entertainment music on May Day instead of that so serious Bach...;-)

2012-04-30 Thread Arto Wikla
Thanks Jean-Marie and Chris! :-) Now also in Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/41307569 http://vimeo.com/41307711 Best, Arto On 01/05/12 01:10, Christopher Stetson wrote: Yes, thanks Arto. Dare I say that I prefer this "light" music to Bach? And Jean-Marie, I wish we had only 1 or 2 week

[LUTE] Re: [LUTE] Re: Bach’s Lute Suites: This Moose is Blasted

2012-04-30 Thread sterling price
Hi-sorry if this has been discussed in this thread, but consider Bach's BWV 1025 for violin and harpsichord which was only recently (1993) discovered to be based on a lute suite by Weiss. Did Weiss supply Bach with a score in staff notation, or did Bach read from the tab? --Sterl

[LUTE] Re: Entertainment music on May Day instead of that so serious Bach...;-)

2012-04-30 Thread Christopher Stetson
Yes, thanks Arto. Dare I say that I prefer this "light" music to Bach? And Jean-Marie, I wish we had only 1 or 2 weeks of political hubbub before elections here in the USA. Zut alors! Best to all, Chris. On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Jean-Marie Poirier <[1]jmpoiri...

[LUTE] Re: Android app for recording lute

2012-04-30 Thread tom
Several companies are now making good quality microphones specifically for iOS: Tascam iM2 $79 (has its own precision preamp and A/D converter) Blue "Mikey Digital" $99 and "Spark Digital" $199 IK Multimedia iRig Mic $59 and iRig Mic Cast $39 Apogee MiC $199 I'm sure any of these would blow t

[LUTE] Re: [LUTE] Entertainment music on May Day instead of that so serious Bach...;-)

2012-04-30 Thread Jean-Marie Poirier
Good idea and very well done Arto, but May Day doesn't really promise to be an entertainment day this year in France with all the political hubbub before the elections next Sunday... :-( ! Jean-Marie = == En réponse au message du 30-04-2012, 21:12:48 == > >I

[LUTE] Re: Android app for recording lute

2012-04-30 Thread Toby
On 04/30/2012 01:21 PM, Adam Olsen wrote: > Is there a good app for recording yourself on Android? I tried a few > apps, but the sound came out very distorted and blown out. I know the > phone's microphone is better than that, because if I use the video > camera app it sounds fine. > I don't kn

[LUTE] Fwd:looking for lute to buy or rent

2012-04-30 Thread Bruno Fournier
Hello fellow lutenetters, A a gentleman from Boston area contacted me to rent or buy a lute.A I personally have nothing available for him.A Anyone in the Boston area able to help out this person? A see message below A Bruno Cognyl-Fournier A A

[LUTE] Bach¹s Lute Suit es: This My th is Busted

2012-04-30 Thread Edward Martin
I stand corrected! ed At 10:15 AM 4/30/2012, Roman Turovsky wrote: >He was actually ethnically Swiss. >RT > >From: "Edward Martin" >>Losy was Czech. >>At 09:32 AM 4/30/2012, Roman Turovsky wrote: >>>How much German music for baroque guitar do you know? >>>3 things come to mind, Kremberg, Diesel

[LUTE] Re: Stringing a lute

2012-04-30 Thread Daniel Winheld
For me, the only reason is economic; to get two strings for the price of one (esp. high priced gut), If the nut is properly round and smooth, the grooves as well, no reason to create even more trouble on an already troublesome aspect of lute maintenance. There may be more detailed discussion of

[LUTE] Re: Stringing a lute

2012-04-30 Thread Sean Smith
I call that extra tied on bit a leader. If I use a less stretchy material I know I'll have less spring between peg and nut which speeds and stabilizes tuning. That w/ a bit of beeswax at the nut makes for quicker work. The other reason I'll use it is economy. Sometimes I can get two len

[LUTE] Re: Bach’s Lute Suites: This Moose is Blasted

2012-04-30 Thread howard posner
On Apr 30, 2012, at 11:34 AM, Roman Turovsky wrote: > JSB didn't play gamba either as evidenced by his reassignment of nicely > playable lute part in the MatthäusPassion to an impossible one for gamba in > the 2nd version. > Any gambist would tell you that that "gamba" part is pure hell. And an

[LUTE] Re: Stringing a lute

2012-04-30 Thread howard posner
On Apr 30, 2012, at 12:02 PM, Alain wrote: > Hi everyone, > When stringing a lute, some people like to cut the strings a little above the > nut and tie them with a knot to some non-elastic material like rope or > synthetic fiber of some kind that is wound to the peg. What are the > advantages

[LUTE] Re: Stringing a lute

2012-04-30 Thread jslute
Alain, The practice you have described is one I would only employ if the string is too short to reach the peg. I prefer the approach of one teacher who advised: "Never cut a good string!" This would entail running the entire length of the string through the peg-hole, with en

[LUTE] Re: Stringing a lute

2012-04-30 Thread William Samson
That's done if the nut grooves aren't perfectly smooth and the string stretches on the peg side of the nut, when tuning, then suddenly jumps to a higher pitch. The cord (usually polyester, which has very little stretch) won't stretch so much and reduces this effect. When this is do

[LUTE] Entertainment music on May Day instead of that so serious Bach... ;-)

2012-04-30 Thread Arto Wikla
Italian music entertainment on this May Day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR773XlyCTc&feature=youtu.be More entertainment on May Day (the Italian idea of ​​a French entertainment): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qedRGde-kEE&feature=youtu.be Happy May Day! Arto To get on or off this list

[LUTE] Re: Bach's Lute Suites: This Moth is Blessed

2012-04-30 Thread Roman Turovsky
Not only in Holland, so - material interests prevail. RT From: "David van Ooijen" On 30 April 2012 20:51, Roman Turovsky wrote: All the gambists I know (a goodly #) dread playing that aria. Tell them not to come to Holland, where playing Matthew is a major part of a gambist's yearly income.

[LUTE] Re: Bach's Lute Suites: This Moth is Blessed

2012-04-30 Thread David van Ooijen
On 30 April 2012 20:51, Roman Turovsky wrote: > All the gambists I know (a goodly #) dread playing that aria. Tell them not to come to Holland, where playing Matthew is a major part of a gambist's yearly income. David -- *** David van Ooijen davidvanooi...@gmail.com

Bach's Lute Suites: This Moth is Blessed

2012-04-30 Thread Roman Turovsky
All the gambists I know (a goodly #) dread playing that aria. RT - Original Message - From: "David van Ooijen" To: "lute net" Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 2:46 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Bach's Lute Suites: This Moth is Blessed On 30 April 2012 20:34, Roman Turovsky wrote: JSB didn'

[LUTE] Re: Bach’s Lute Suites: This Moth is Blessed

2012-04-30 Thread David van Ooijen
On 30 April 2012 20:34, Roman Turovsky wrote: > JSB didn't play gamba either as evidenced by his reassignment of nicely > playable lute part in the MatthäusPassion to an impossible one for gamba in > the 2nd version. > Any gambist would tell you that that "gamba" part is pure hell. Another blank

Bach’s Lute Suites: This Moth is Blessed

2012-04-30 Thread Roman Turovsky
JSB didn't play gamba either as evidenced by his reassignment of nicely playable lute part in the MatthäusPassion to an impossible one for gamba in the 2nd version. Any gambist would tell you that that "gamba" part is pure hell. RT From: "howard posner" Needless to say, I regard these trumpet

[LUTE] Re: Re: Bach’s Lute Suites: This Moth is Blessed

2012-04-30 Thread David van Ooijen
> The difficulties of the trumpet part in Bach's Cantata 90 may seem bizarre Es reißet euch ein schrecklich Ende ... how true. Been there done that, and I do remember the poor trumpeter (not to mention the poor ears of all the members of our ensemble ;-). David -- *

[LUTE] Re: _Bach's_Lute_Suites:_This_Myth_is_Busted

2012-04-30 Thread Andreas Schlegel
Only very short: It seems that the family of Losy (Loschi, Lossio) was a protestant family from Italy who has to flee from Italy to the region "Veltlin" (exactly Piuro or older: Plurs) who was then under the leadership of the "Drei Bünde" (today Kanton Graubünden). The "Drei Bünde" were in these

[LUTE] Re: Bach’s Lute Suites: This Moth is Blessed

2012-04-30 Thread howard posner
On Apr 30, 2012, at 9:25 AM, David van Ooijen wrote: > Did you ever have the doubtful pleasure of attending a concert of the > B-minor mass with _real_ Baroque trumpets (without holes instead of > the 1960s 'Bach' trumpets which are the generally accepted standard in > today's early music Esperan

[LUTE] Re: Bach’s Lute Suites: This Myth is Busted

2012-04-30 Thread Andreas Schroth
I love this discussion and I hope, the big master can hear it! I fear he could say:"Do You really suppose I think of Your wretched lutes when the spirit gets hold of me?" Replace lute by violin, than this is what half a century later Beethoven said to the violinist Schuppanzigh whe

[LUTE] Re: Re: Bach’s Lute Suites: This Math is Basted

2012-04-30 Thread David van Ooijen
On 30 April 2012 18:01, howard posner wrote: (as part of a summary of the place of Bach's lute works in his general output that I can only agree with): > Not everything Bach wrote is the B minor Mass [...] > trumpets were not played with fingers [...] > lute players and guitarists simply don't h

[LUTE] Re: _Bach's_Lute_Suites:_This_Myth_is_Busted

2012-04-30 Thread Roman Turovsky
What Vogl doesn't mention is an interesting side-detail: Losy's original hometown fell victim of a catastrophic landslide that buried most of it, and that's how Losys ended up in Bohemia. RT - Original Message - From: "Jean-Marie Poirier" To: Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 11:51 AM

[LUTE] Re: Bach’s Lute Suites: This Math is Basted

2012-04-30 Thread howard posner
I find your assessment a bit overstated, but I don't disagree. I've had similar thoughts about the lute suites, which supplies me with a ready excuse, if I need one, for not putting in the effort to learn to play them. Not everything Bach wrote is the B minor Mass; there's plenty of pedestrian

[LUTE] Re: _Bach's_Lute_Suites:_This_Myth_is_Busted

2012-04-30 Thread Jean-Marie Poirier
Everything you need to know about Losy here : http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~lsa/publications/J/1980/Vogl-LosyPragueLutenist.pdf Best, Jean-Marie = == En réponse au message du 30-04-2012, 17:15:42 == >He was actually ethnically Swiss. >RT > >From: "Edward Martin

[LUTE] Re: Bach¹s Piano Suites: This Moth is Bested

2012-04-30 Thread howard posner
On Apr 30, 2012, at 7:57 AM, Mayes, Joseph wrote: > Then why is it "possible to state categorically" that Bach never wrote for > lute? I wouldn't know; I've never said it. > How can we assume what Back "must have expected?" We don't have to assume--when you send music to someone who plays the

[LUTE] Bach¹s Lute Suit es: This Myth is Busted

2012-04-30 Thread Roman Turovsky
He was actually ethnically Swiss. RT From: "Edward Martin" Losy was Czech. At 09:32 AM 4/30/2012, Roman Turovsky wrote: How much German music for baroque guitar do you know? 3 things come to mind, Kremberg, Diesel and Losy. RT Edward Martin 2817 East 2nd Street Duluth, Minnesota 55812 e-

[LUTE] Bach¹s Lute Suit es: This Myth is Busted

2012-04-30 Thread Edward Martin
Losy was Czech. At 09:32 AM 4/30/2012, Roman Turovsky wrote: >How much German music for baroque guitar do you know? >3 things come to mind, Kremberg, Diesel and Losy. >RT Edward Martin 2817 East 2nd Street Duluth, Minnesota 55812 e-mail: e...@gamutstrings.com voice: (218) 728-1202 http://www

[LUTE] RE: [LUTE] Re: Re: Bach’s Lute Suites: This Myth is Busted

2012-04-30 Thread Braig, Eugene
Alas, yes. Personally, I would have rather he tempered with some caveat like "may not have" or similar. Unfortunately, strong and controversial categorical statements seem to be what grab attention with popular press and what raise hackles of scholarly readers. Eugene -Original Message--

[LUTE] Re: [LUTE] Re: Bach’s Lute Suites: This Myth is Busted

2012-04-30 Thread Christopher Wilke
Dear all, I find it odd that Bach's "lute" music is so contentious. By and large, it seems that classical guitarists feel more of a need to prove them to be works intended for lute than us luters. Is it really worth the effort? (I'm going to risk getting my head bitten of

[LUTE] Re: Bach¹s Lute Suites: This Myth is Busted

2012-04-30 Thread Roman Turovsky
Yep, especially if one could milk such murky waters for an academic livelihood. RT From: "Braig, Eugene" Avoiding definitive categorical strikes me as usually a good plan. Eugene -Original Message- From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of Mayes,

[LUTE] Bach¹s Piano Suites: This Myth is Busted

2012-04-30 Thread Mayes, Joseph
Then why is it "possible to state categorically" that Bach never wrote for lute? How can we assume what Back "must have expected?" JM On 4/30/12 10:52 AM, "howard posner" wrote: > We can't say categorically that Bach never wrote for piano. When he sent The > Musical Offering to Fred, he must

[LUTE] RE: [LUTE] Bach¹s Lute Suites: This Myth is Busted

2012-04-30 Thread Braig, Eugene
Avoiding definitive categorical strikes me as usually a good plan. Eugene -Original Message- From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of Mayes, Joseph Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 10:25 AM To: Roman Turovsky; Jarosław Lipski; lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Subj

[LUTE] Re: Bach¹s Piano Suites: This Myth is Busted

2012-04-30 Thread howard posner
On Apr 30, 2012, at 7:32 AM, Roman Turovsky wrote: > His low opinion of hammerklaviers he saw in Berlin is documented. Inaccurate, I think. Johann Friedrich Agricola related in a 1768 treatise on keyboard instruments that Bach once tried a Silbermann pianoforte (didn't say when or where), and

[LUTE] Re: Bach’s Lute Suites

2012-04-30 Thread howard posner
On Apr 30, 2012, at 6:31 AM, David van Ooijen wrote: > There is a general consensus among musicians that Bach never > really understood their instrument, because however good his music for > other instruments, it's always unplayable on their own instrument. >From "Letter from an able Musikant Ab

[LUTE] Bach¹s Lute Suites: This Myth is Busted

2012-04-30 Thread Roman Turovsky
His low opinion of hammerklaviers he saw in Berlin is documented. And it is safe to assume he never liked a guitar either. How much German music for baroque guitar do you know? 3 things come to mind, Kremberg, Diesel and Losy. RT - Original Message - From: "Mayes, Joseph" To: "Roman Turo

[LUTE] Re: [LUTE] Bach¹s Lute Suites: This Myth is Busted

2012-04-30 Thread Mayes, Joseph
I have an issue whenever I hear a blanket statement like "He never wrote for it," and "JSB never played the trumpet." It strikes me as similar to "there is no God" or "there is a God." We know JSB liked the sound of the lute - he invented a keyboard instrument to imitate that sound. We can guess t

[LUTE] RE: [LUTE] Bach’s Lute Suites: This Myth is Busted

2012-04-30 Thread Braig, Eugene
However, questioning established theories is often fruitful. A theory's validity isn't necessarily related to how long ago it was generated. I believe the discussion at hand is more about questioning the old theory of how we came to know Bach's "lute" suites as music actually intended for lute

[LUTE] Bach’s Lute Suites: This Myth is Busted

2012-04-30 Thread Roman Turovsky
I heard these things a million times. However even a mediocre professional could play his instrumental parts (complaints notwithstanding). Which we cannot say that about his "Lute Suites". They are inappropraiate beyond all measure, and it takes a player of inordinate virtuosity to perform the

[LUTE] Re: Bach’s Lute Suites: This Myth is Busted

2012-04-30 Thread David van Ooijen
On 30 April 2012 15:19, Roman Turovsky wrote: > JSB never played trumpet either, but he wrote for it competently. > There is sufficient grounds to assume he would have approached lute > with equal consideration he afforded any other instrument he wrote for, > given his diligence and meticulousness

[LUTE] Bach’s Lute Suites: This Myth is Busted

2012-04-30 Thread Roman Turovsky
meant there ARE suff. etc. RT - Original Message - From: "Roman Turovsky" To: "Jarosław Lipski" ; Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 9:19 AM Subject: [LUTE] Bach’s Lute Suites: This Myth is Busted JSB never played trumpet either, but he wrote for it competently. There is sufficient ground

[LUTE] Bach’s Lute Suites: This Myth is Busted

2012-04-30 Thread Roman Turovsky
JSB never played trumpet either, but he wrote for it competently. There is sufficient grounds to assume he would have approached lute with equal consideration he afforded any other instrument he wrote for, given his diligence and meticulousness. The lute is the only instrument he showed no underst

[LUTE] Re: Bach’s Lute Suites: This Myth is Busted

2012-04-30 Thread Jarosław Lipski
Roman, Yes , no one questions that. Lute Suites are not well written for lute, for sure. Weather they are playable or not can be discussed. However we are not talking about this. The question is if Bach intended them to be performed on a lute. I can tell you something from my own experience. Ma