[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Satoh Recording

2012-05-01 Thread William Samson
Now isn't that amazing? Somebody who produced wonderful music from a primitive lute built back in the dark ages - by a guitar maker of all things! Wonders will never cease . . . [heavy sarcasm] Bill From: howard posner howardpos...@ca.rr.com To: baroque lute list

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

2012-05-01 Thread Gary Digman
So were JSB's three gamba sonatas originally intended for trumpet? Gary - Original Message - From: Roman Turovsky r.turov...@verizon.net To: howard posner howardpos...@ca.rr.com; lute net lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 11:34 AM Subject: Bach’s Lute Suites: This

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

2012-05-01 Thread Roman Turovsky
The 3 gamba sonatas are actually organ trios with one part assigned to gamba. RT - Original Message - From: Gary Digman magg...@sonic.net To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 4:23 AM Subject: [LUTE] Bach’s Lute Suites: This Moth is Blessed So were JSB's three gamba

[LUTE] Bach¹s Lute Suites: This Myth is Busted

2012-05-01 Thread Mathias Rösel
Sorry to re-post, but as it didn't turn up in the archives ... Please do not let us get trapped in nationalistic nonsense. Losy was neither ethnically Swiss nor was he Czechian. The Cezka republica did not exist at the time, and Switzerland comprises several nations. In fact,

[LUTE] 2nd hand instruments

2012-05-01 Thread Bernd Haegemann
Dear all, I just added 5 items to our 2nd hand page: http://www.lute-academy.be/advertenties/advertenties-en.php best regards Bernd To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: Android app for recording lute

2012-05-01 Thread David Tayler
Zoom H2 and live the good life. --- On Mon, 4/30/12, Adam Olsen arol...@gmail.com wrote: From: Adam Olsen arol...@gmail.com Subject: [LUTE] Android app for recording lute To: Lute List lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Date: Monday, April 30, 2012, 1:21 PM Is there a good app

[LUTE] Re: Stringing a lute

2012-05-01 Thread William Samson
Talking of parsimony with string material - I really grudge the ends I need to trim off my fret gut after tying the knot. Effectively I'm throwing away at least as much as I'm keeping. I have tried shorter ends and pulling them tight with pliers, but don't feel comfortable with

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

2012-05-01 Thread David Tayler
All the gambists I know live on it and think Forqueray 5th suite is way harder. --- On Mon, 4/30/12, Roman Turovsky r.turov...@verizon.net wrote: From: Roman Turovsky r.turov...@verizon.net Subject: Bach's Lute Suites: This Moth is Blessed To: David van Ooijen

[LUTE] Re: Android app for recording lute

2012-05-01 Thread William Samson
I second that. I think the H2 has now been replaced by the H2n . . .? Still cheaper than Android phone. From: David Tayler vidan...@sbcglobal.net To: lute lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Tuesday, 1 May 2012, 16:46 Subject: [LUTE] Re: Android app for recording lute Zoom H2

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

2012-05-01 Thread David Tayler
I have to say for me I think the available evidence points nowhere. People can't even agree on whether the pieces are playable on the lute, and not only that, playability is not an indicator of authorship or orchestration, so who cares? All this stuff about the original intent of

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

2012-05-01 Thread Roman Turovsky
Wasn't it actually written by his son for keyboard? RT - Original Message - From: David Tayler vidan...@sbcglobal.net To: lute lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 11:50 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Bach's Lute Suites: This Moth is Blessed All the gambists I know live on

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

2012-05-01 Thread Daniel Winheld
No, it was written by cousin Louis (Johann Ludwig Bach), who wrote it for comb and toilet paper- but no one could play it as written; after all it was composed on the Toiletwerke by a keyboard player. (Now we trespass into Prof. Schickele land.) Dan On May 1, 2012, at 9:02 AM, Roman

[LUTE] Re: Stringing a lute

2012-05-01 Thread Sean Smith
Mornin', Bill, Ends? Starting w/ a coil, I burn a ball onto it then pass it under the strings. Then I tie the overhand knot around the string leading to the coil. The string leading to the coil is what I pull and sever with the burn. That burned end becomes the ball for the next fret. I

[LUTE] Re: Stringing a lute

2012-05-01 Thread Sean Smith
I have tried shorter ends and pulling them tight with pliers, I should've been clearer here. If you're making you 5th fret where the 4th or third-and-a-halfth fret would be you should only need enough tension to keep the string taught while burning it. I have about 5 lbs of tension on

[LUTE] OT, but about music, great music by Schubert

2012-05-01 Thread Arto Wikla
Dear lutenists, this morning I happened to listen some classical radio channel. Great music crept to my soul. Could not do anything else than listen intensively. I am sorry to talk here about not lute music, but perhaps also Bach is an example of that? And we talk a lot of his music, too...

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

2012-05-01 Thread Jarosław Lipski
Exactly! Wiadomość napisana przez David Tayler w dniu 1 maj 2012, o godz. 18:02: I have to say for me I think the available evidence points nowhere. People can't even agree on whether the pieces are playable on the lute, and not only that, playability is not an indicator of authorship

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

2012-05-01 Thread Jarosław Lipski
So do I. In most music written between 16-18 century one can find some kind of schemata that was popularly used, but Bach was incredibly creative in using it. Besides, as someone told me long time ago: there are no bad compositions, there are only poor performances :) As for BWV 997 and 998 you

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

2012-05-01 Thread Braig, Eugene
Exactly indeed. Eugene From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] on behalf of Jarosław Lipski [jaroslawlip...@wp.pl] Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 5:37 PM To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: [LUTE] Re: Re: Bach’s Lute Suites: This Myth

[LUTE] Re: OT, but about music, great music by Schubert

2012-05-01 Thread Edward Mast
Thank you for directing our attention to this, Arto. Though I have more recordings of piano music by Beethoven and Brahms on my shelves than by Schubert, I wouldn't want to be without his music. I'm especially moved by his piano trios. (And - as almost always - it's the slow movements that

[LUTE] Re: OT, but about music, great music by Schubert

2012-05-01 Thread Daniel Winheld
Thank you, Arto! Schubert- always so transcendentally heart gripping. The cosmic Yin to Beethoven's Yang. Brendel does a fine job, too. His live recording of the 960 is also sublime; even though the piano sound comes off a little hard, perhaps just the recording situation, though. This one