[LUTE] Re: tuning fork at 433Hz?

2012-01-11 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
Eeeew. - Original Message - From: Daniel Winheld dwinh...@comcast.net Date: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 12:40 am Subject: [LUTE] Re: tuning fork at 433Hz? To: EUGENE BRAIG IV brai...@osu.edu Cc: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu lute@cs.dartmouth.edu When did they change from gut saws? On Jan 10

[LUTE] Re: tuning fork at 433Hz?

2012-01-10 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
Regarding: In fact, do any contemporary composers give explicit instructions for using a particular string type (or even instrument material : brass/silver/gold, reed-type, etc) in order to achieve a particular tonal colour? I am aware of one at least similar case. In

[LUTE] Re: tuning fork at 433Hz?

2012-01-10 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
: Christopher Wilke chriswi...@yahoo.com Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 3:43 pm Subject: [LUTE] Re: tuning fork at 433Hz? To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu lute@cs.dartmouth.edu, EUGENE BRAIG IV brai...@osu.edu Eugene, --- On Tue, 1/10/12, EUGENE BRAIG IV brai...@osu.edu wrote: In the song cycle

[LUTE] Re: Non-stretchy pegbox leaders.

2012-01-09 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
That's the same knot that is more commonly called the blood knot by anglers and was previously discussed in this very thread.  I think it works best when joining two lines of relatively limp flexibility and similar diameter.  I would think it would be difficult to tie in gut because of the

[LUTE] Re: Non-stretchy pegbox leaders.

2012-01-02 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
Your not likely to find many braids on local-shop shelves clocking 0.6 - 0.8 mm.  In typical braids/fusion lines, even 0.4 mm diameters will exceed a breakage rating of 100-lb/45-kg test.  As you might expect, to get to a diameter of 0.8 mm, you're handily exceeding double that rating.  Modern

[LUTE] Re: ubricating Non-stretchy pegbox leaders.

2012-01-02 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
I'm not familiar with the shell not outside of neck ties.  Is this the knot you'd intended, Alexander?  If not, can you refer me to a diagram? The nail knot to which I'd referred really has a low profile for line to line, and a bit of burned-end gut would be perfectly suited to it. Have you

[LUTE] Re: ubricating Non-stretchy pegbox leaders.

2012-01-02 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
Not for knot. Your for you're.  Occasion for occasional. I'm really striking out this sleepy morning. I hope the lute diction police aren't watching. Eugene - Original Message - From: EUGENE BRAIG IV brai...@osu.edu Date: Monday, January 2, 2012 10:53 am Subject: [LUTE] Re

[LUTE] Re: ubricating Non-stretchy pegbox leaders.

2012-01-02 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
-stretchy pegbox leaders. To: EUGENE BRAIG IV brai...@osu.edu Cc: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu I hope i can post the link Separating the first h in http for a spam assassins. The shell knot: h ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zW6UIGTzGw Very much depends on the leader material, actually, how slippery

[LUTE] Re: Non-stretchy pegbox leaders.

2012-01-01 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
Greetings Herbert and list: I tie knots, try to catch fish, and pluck gut.  Personally, I don't think a leader would be worth the effort.  To be useful, the leader would need to nearly fill the space from peg to nut.  You couldn't keep any reserve of string wrapped on or coiled beyond peg to

[LUTE] Re: Century-old lute recordings

2011-12-04 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
Still, I'm guessing the lutenist was seated right at the horn with the other performers arrayed behind. The pluck that sounds to be fretted usually dominates, leaving the voice that seems to be harp comfortably in the background. The harp often seems to serve only as ambient

[LUTE] Re: who is this guy?

2011-12-04 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
I'm sorry, but I have to admit that the slang implications of the guitar-lute hybrid instrument's name brought a juvenile chuckle to my lips. Eugene - Original Message - From: Bruno Fournier br...@estavel.org Date: Sunday, December 4, 2011 9:44 pm Subject: [LUTE] who is this guy? To:

[LUTE] Re: American luthiers

2011-08-06 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
Here's a reasonably priced up-and-comer and occasional on this list of whom I am fond: http://www.neallutes.com/p/baroque-lutes.html Chad has done a great deal of repair work for me (including a total rebuild of an odd East German vihuela) and is contracted to build a new Neapolitan mandolin

[LUTE] Re: New lute CD Lautenschmaus

2011-07-22 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
Congrats!  I'm looking forward to putting a copy on my shelves. Eugene - Original Message - From: Daniel Shoskes kidneykut...@gmail.com Date: Friday, July 22, 2011 6:38 pm Subject: [LUTE] New lute CD Lautenschmaus To: lute lute@cs.dartmouth.edu    Dear Friends: I am excited to announce

[LUTE] Re: Speaking of citterns....

2011-05-28 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
All I can say about T-fret wire is it is relatively old, but for some reason, it took some time to catch on with some conservative makers. Martin in the US (founded in 1833, for those unfamiliar), e.g., continued to stubbornly use bar-fret wire well into the 20th c. on all their

[LUTE] Re: James Tyler

2010-11-28 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
Also at the forefront of reuniting baroque repertoire for mandolin[o] with the instrument for which it was intended. Still one of the very few to have recorded gut-strung mandolino in fingerstyle punteado. Missed indeed... Eugene - Original Message - From: Bruno Fournier 

[LUTE] Re: Carbon strings?

2010-06-10 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
nylguts and go fishing!    :-)    Laura    2010/6/10 EUGENE BRAIG IV [1]brai...@osu.edu - Original Message - From: Paul Kieffer [2]paul.nicholas.kief...@gmail.com Date: Wednesday, June 9, 2010 10:44 pm Subject: [LUTE] Re: Carbon strings

[LUTE] Re: Carbon strings?

2010-06-09 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
Be careful to be just a little more specific on this subject. The generic description of fishing line is not sufficient to arrive at appropriate instrument strings. I can't find enough detail to determine the material you're using, Paul, but I would guess it's nylon from your descriptions of

[LUTE] Re: baroque mandolins - single/double courses experiment

2010-06-06 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
They are available in modern notation from the mandolin publisher Trekel: https://www.trekel.de/cgi-bin/shop/front/shop_main.cgi?func=detwkid=56 630133836085815rub1=Noten%20-%20Sheet%20musicrub2=Noten%20Zupfinstrum

[LUTE] Re: baroque mandolins etc---not forgetting the French mandore

2010-06-02 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
. Without evidence to the contrary, I suppose anything is possible. Best, Eugene - Original Message - From: Stuart Walsh s.wa...@ntlworld.com Date: Tuesday, June 1, 2010 1:14 pm Subject: [LUTE] Re: baroque mandolins etc---not forgetting the French mandore To: EUGENE BRAIG IV brai...@osu.edu Cc

[LUTE] Re: baroque mandolins etc---not forgetting the French mandore

2010-06-02 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
). Alexander On 01/06/2010 18:11, Stuart Walsh wrote: EUGENE BRAIG IV wrote: Indeed, but the late renaissance mandore was distinct from Italian mandolino. Not that distinct Eugene. Late Renaissance = Early Baroque? The Ulm MS (which I would really like to get hold

[LUTE] Re: baroque mandolins etc--- tensions and kgs?

2010-05-31 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
@cs.dartmouth.edu, EUGENE BRAIG IV brai...@osu.edu, davide.rebuffa davide.rebu...@fastwebnet.it Thank you for this. My original enquiry was not so much about conducting a survey of what tensions modern manolino preffered but rather to cooment on Timmerman's

[LUTE] Re: baroque mandolins etc---not forgetting the French mandore

2010-05-31 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
the French mandore To: Martyn Hodgson hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk Cc: Lute List lute@cs.dartmouth.edu, EUGENE BRAIG IV brai...@osu.edu Martyn Hodgson wrote: Very good point about uniformity of trebles. Did mandolinos never have single trebles

[LUTE] Re: baroque mandolins etc--- tensions and kgs?

2010-05-30 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
: Martyn Hodgson hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk Date: Sunday, May 30, 2010 4:09 am Subject: [LUTE] Re: baroque mandolins etc--- tensions and kgs? To: Lute List lute@cs.dartmouth.edu, EUGENE BRAIG IV brai...@osu.edu Dear Eugene, There is really is no difficulty here. The heart

[LUTE] Re: baroque mandolins etc--- tensions and kgs?

2010-05-30 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: Stuart Walsh s.wa...@ntlworld.com Date: Sunday, May 30, 2010 7:08 am Subject: [LUTE] Re: baroque mandolins etc--- tensions and kgs? To: Martyn Hodgson hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk Cc: Lute List lute@cs.dartmouth.edu, EUGENE BRAIG IV brai...@osu.edu No it's

[LUTE] Re: baroque mandolins etc--- tensions and kgs?

2010-05-30 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
Of course, I'd meant ...a better ability to cut above accompanying instruments with mandolino. Best, Eugene - Original Message - From: EUGENE BRAIG IV brai...@osu.edu Date: Sunday, May 30, 2010 8:45 am Subject: [LUTE] Re: baroque mandolins etc--- tensions and kgs? To: Lute List lute

[LUTE] Re: baroque mandolins etc--- tensions and kgs?

2010-05-30 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
List lute@cs.dartmouth.edu, EUGENE BRAIG IV brai...@osu.edu Dear Stuart,  The answer is 3.5KG for this spec. Whether it's high or low tension is moot. I think it's fairly high for such a relatively small instrument: on a lute-like comparison I'd expect something closer to 2Kg But most

[LUTE] Re: baroque mandolins etc--- tensions and kgs?

2010-05-29 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
I don't know why tension should have much to do with punteado vs. plectrum. I also certainly would not consider approx. 3.0-4.0 kg per string (as I use on my mandolino) high tension. Guitars are often much higher, modern classical or even 19th c. It's not even far from what some

[LUTE] Re: Mandolin at Kedleston Hall

2010-05-23 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
I went digging around the web for a larger image; found this: http://www.bestpriceart.com/vault/cgfa_devis1.jpg Soundbox is portrayed a little on the large side, but this appears to be a classic, late 18th-c. Neapolitan mandolin. You can also see the case on the bench behind the

[LUTE] Re: Mandolin at Kedleston Hall

2010-05-23 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
PS: Mid 18th-c. is right about right for extant instruments to begin appearing in decent numbers. The first wave of mandolin popularity (and almost all the first method books beginning in the 1760s) happened in Paris. Without knowing anything about the family's history, I suspect

[LUTE] Re: playing technique of baroque mandolin

2010-05-16 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
I agree with Davide. I'm just aware of no baroque-era iconography that implies plectra/quills on 4th-tuned, gut strung mandolins. If it were common in the pit for obligati parts, I would think plectrum use would be at least occasionally evident in the sketchy iconography. I also

[LUTE] Re: Bakfark's fantasias

2010-03-07 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
I quite like the Homolya  Benko edition...and Bakfark music is hard...and too seldom recorded. Eugene - Original Message - From: Andreas Schlegel lute.cor...@sunrise.ch Date: Sunday, March 7, 2010 10:09 am Subject: [LUTE] Re: Bakfark's fantasias To: Reinier de Valk reinierdev...@home.nl

[LUTE] Re: Strange lute in French painting

2010-02-14 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
Marquetry trim is pretty common to plucked instruments of the 21st century...at least pretty much any one that isn't a lute. The pegbox arrangement is quite odd. It looks almost like a renaissance mandore found itself grafted onto a renaissance lute. Eugene - Original Message - From:

[LUTE] Re: Robert Spencer Collection

2010-02-12 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
Speak for yourself! (Sadly, just kidding.) Eugene - Original Message - From: chriswi...@yahoo.com Date: Friday, February 12, 2010 8:49 am Subject: [LUTE] Re: Robert Spencer Collection To: Monica Hall mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk Cc: Lutelist lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Fortunately for the soul,

[LUTE] Re: [LUTE]New lute music and ET

2009-09-26 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
I haven't read Isacoff so cannot comment directly.  From knowing Isacoff only via your brief citation, Leonard, there is a point to be made in the straight-frets argument that seems to have been missed.  Setting unsegmented frets on any lute-like instrument into any non-equal temperament scheme

[LUTE] Re: Ukulele and Renaissance Guitar

2009-07-17 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
Way off. Oh well... Eugene - Original Message - From: Rob MacKillop luteplay...@googlemail.com Date: Friday, July 17, 2009 6:58 pm Subject: [LUTE] Re: Ukulele and Renaissance Guitar To: Eugene C. Braig IV brai...@osu.edu Cc: Lute List lute@cs.dartmouth.edu

[LUTE] Re: La Furstenberg

2009-06-07 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
I received the following directly regarding a conference to which I contributed little more than reference to a lengthy 18th-c. set of variations for mandolin. Does anybody have text for this melody? Please reply directly to Fabrice HOLVOET m...@holvoet.org. Hello, I read on

[LUTE] Re: frequent re-fretting, a must... was nylon frets

2009-03-21 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
What would a sewer pipe be doing in a tuxedo!? Facetiously, Eugene - Original Message - From: chriswi...@yahoo.com Date: Saturday, March 21, 2009 12:26 pm Subject: [LUTE] Re: frequent re-fretting, a must... was nylon frets To: List LUTELIST lute@cs.dartmouth.edu, ml

[LUTE] Re: glueing back decoration

2009-03-15 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
I have to preface my remarks with the fact that I am not a luthier and do not execute any but the most trivial repair work myself. However, I own several original 19th-c. instruments that are old, assembled with glue and timbers that are now old, and thus are in somewhat frequent

[LUTE] Re: Staff notation software - views?

2009-02-22 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
All kinds, including g-to-g'' mandolino/mandola? Eugene - Original Message - From: Ed Durbrow edurb...@sea.plala.or.jp Date: Sunday, February 22, 2009 3:27 am Subject: [LUTE] Re: Staff notation software - views? To: hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk, LuteNet list

[LUTE] Re: possible scam warning!!!!! be careful.... from Anton Birula

2009-02-18 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
..And, as far as I know, the person named as a maker has never built instruments, but instead makes inset guitar/vihuela/mandolin roses for hire. Eugene - Original Message - From: Wayne Cripps w...@cs.dartmouth.edu Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 5:18 pm Subject: [LUTE] Re: possible

[LUTE] Re: Staff notation software - views?

2009-02-14 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
I think amongst those who use notation software with somewhat professional intent, some manner of keystroke entry is key and certainly key to efficiency. Point and click entry is too slow and too toy-like. Eugene - Original Message - From: alexander voka...@verizon.net Date: Saturday,

[LUTE] Re: Holborne's New Year's Gift

2008-12-29 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: Stuart Walsh s.wa...@ntlworld.com Date: Monday, December 29, 2008 6:52 pm Subject: [LUTE] Holborne's  New Year's Gift To: Lute Net lute@cs.dartmouth.edu I haven't looked at this in years...It's a tricky one, I think - and I can't find a version of it played

[LUTE] Re: Respighi

2008-09-28 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: Arthur Ness [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, September 28, 2008 3:27 pm Subject: [LUTE] Re: Respighi To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul Pleijsier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Lute Net lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Please don't misunderstand me... No one has questioned the

[LUTE] Re: Lineage of early Guitars

2008-09-23 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: Joshua Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 8:00 am Subject: [LUTE] Re: Lineage of early Guitars To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu There's got to be some relation between my Classical Guitar and Lutes and such. Because with the right tuning, I get

[LUTE] Re: Respighi

2008-09-21 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
Greetings Arthur et al. I very sincerely intended no disrespect in referring to the existence of the original as a rumor. I have read these accounts before. I do not know the lutenist referenced nor the owner of the manuscript. I am also a biologist who deals with wild things. Eyewitness

[LUTE] Re: The London Manuscript

2008-06-11 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
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[LUTE] Re: The London Manuscript

2008-06-11 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
Sorry=2E=26nbsp=3B I don=27t know why that sometimes happens to my messa= ges when replying via webmail=2E=3CBR=3E=26nbsp=3B=3CBR=3EEugene=3CBR=3E= =3CBR=3E- Original Message -=3CBR=3EFrom=3A EUGENE BRAIG IV =26l= t=3Bbraig=2E1=40osu=2Eedu=26gt=3B=3CBR=3EDate=3A Wednesday=2C

[LUTE] Re: medieval plectrum, how to make?

2008-06-08 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: howard posner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, June 7, 2008 8:39 pm Subject: [LUTE] Re: medieval plectrum, how to make? To: lute-cs.dartmouth.edu lute@cs.dartmouth.edu On Jun 6, 2008, at 5:37 AM, Eugene C. Braig IV wrote: My

[LUTE] Re: [LUTE] Re: Double headed 12c/loaded/ Demi-filé

2008-06-05 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message -=3CBR=3EFrom=3A howard posner =26lt=3Bhoward= posner=40ca=2Err=2Ecom=26gt=3B=3CBR=3EDate=3A Thursday=2C June 5=2C 2008= 7=3A39 pm=3CBR=3ESubject=3A =5BLUTE=5D Re=3A Double headed 12c/loaded/=26= nbsp=3B Demi-fil=E9=3CBR=3ETo=3A Lute List

[LUTE] Re: machete

2008-05-03 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message -=3CBR=3EFrom=3A Rob MacKillop =26lt=3Blutepl= ayer1=40googlemail=2Ecom=26gt=3B=3CBR=3EDate=3A Saturday=2C May 3=2C 200= 8 4=3A52 am=3CBR=3ESubject=3A =5BVIHUELA=5D machete=3CBR=3ETo=3A Vihuela=

[LUTE] Re: Lauffensteiner

2007-12-17 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: David Rastall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, December 17, 2007 11:22 pm Subject: [LUTE] Lauffensteiner Dear Wisdom, I've been looking for an edition of the works of Wolff Jacob Lauffensteiner, but without success. I know an edition exists out there

[LUTE] Re: Vivaldi

2007-11-14 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: David Tayler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 0:08 am Subject: [LUTE] Re: Vivaldi Also works nice on 6 course mandolin, and archlute in mandolin tuning. On mandolin you have not the parallel octaves, and the modulating parts are easier

[LUTE] Re: Vivaldi

2007-11-14 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: Roman Turovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 12:49 pm Subject: [LUTE] Re: Vivaldi heard over an orchestra (you can't play as hard) And that is the overriding consideration. ..And whatever Vivaldi had in mind when naming leuto is still

[LUTE] Re: Vivaldi

2007-11-14 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
Though people debate this issue, liuto in Scarlatti Vivaldi land generally meant mandolin... I think that Vivaldi actually designated mandolino in several instances argues to the contrary. Again, O'Dette took that stance originally, but recanted. Eugene To get on or off this list

[LUTE] Re: Vivaldi

2007-11-14 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
My university's spam filter seems to be a little overzealous at the moment. I don't seem to be picking up all of this discussion. In addition to only archlute and mandolin, I think the few-course, lute-like thing called mandora in some places at some times is worthy of consideration for

[LUTE] Re: Vivaldi

2007-11-14 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: Eric Liefeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 5:56 pm Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: Vivaldi Hi Eugene, Much earlier than Presbler, et al, I'm very much taken by the six- course 1652 Matteo Sellas instrument in Paris (D.E.CI 7688). The

[LUTE] Re: Amps or no amps

2007-10-09 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: gary digman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, October 9, 2007 5:18 am Subject: [LUTE] Re: Amps or no amps So, c'mon youse guys (and gals). If you're going to play to large audiences, have mercy on the poor lute players in the back and mic the darn thing.

[LUTE] Re: Amps or no amps

2007-10-07 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: G. Crona [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, October 7, 2007 12:26 pm Subject: [LUTE] Amps or no amps The recent discussion of silent Hoppy (although I've never had the live pleasure, I've had the great one of hearing him in loud duets with PO'D. Sting was

[LUTE] Re: Lute concert

2007-09-26 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: Stewart McCoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 4:04 pm Subject: [LUTE] Lute concert On the subject of Tony Rooley's performance, I would say that any lute in a hall big enough to hold over 800 people, is going to be difficult to hear,

[LUTE] Re: Harptone

2007-09-04 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: Edward Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, September 3, 2007 0:16 am Subject: [LUTE] Re: Harptone I am in favor of the Kinham case. Yes, they are expensive, but of high quality./ Harptone cases are not really form fitted, so they are somewhat

[LUTE] Re: Mason Williams - no attachments

2007-07-30 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: Wayne Cripps [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, July 30, 2007 5:51 pm Subject: [LUTE] Mason Williams - no attachments It seems that there is a block on attaching files, either that or my computer is having 'one of those days'. There is indeed a block

[LUTE] Re: explain some things

2007-07-29 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: hera caius [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, July 29, 2007 5:19 pm Subject: [LUTE] explain some things I'm very sorry to say this but I think that sometimes people are getting a little frustrated here. OK by me. Good luck! I think music is something for the

[LUTE] Re: More mandora/mandola

2007-07-25 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: Howard Posner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 0:16 am Subject: [LUTE] Re: More mandora/mandola EUGENE BRAIG IV wrote: The effort to directly parallel fixed-bridge mandolins is obvious Do you mean to say bridge rather than fret? Are we

[LUTE] Re: Nigel on YouTube

2007-07-17 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: David Tayler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 1:46 am Subject: [LUTE] Re: Nigel on YouTube I think it is interesting that when we actually hear someone playing historically, we wonder if it is. Of course, no matter how scholarly the effort,

[LUTE] Re: richard III and the charango

2007-07-09 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: bill kilpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, July 9, 2007 7:06 pm Subject: [LUTE] Re: richard III and the charango late at night ... the sandman is insistent ... but the short answer to your question is: .. not a lot - they're all (i maintain) in the

[LUTE] Re: richard III and the charango

2007-07-09 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: David Tayler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, July 9, 2007 7:48 pm Subject: [LUTE] Re: richard III and the charango Many organologists classify the charango as a lute; I think it would be difficult to trace the precise line of development. I also think that

[LUTE] Re: Mics arrived

2007-07-04 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, July 4, 2007 10:42 am Subject: [LUTE] Re: Mics arrived Yes, and on Hoppy's Vieux Gaultier CD, you can hear breathing, buzzes, cracked notes, and even a storm outside. I think there's a recording by Diego Cantalupi where

[LUTE] Re: vihuela's black swan

2007-06-20 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: gary digman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 3:35 am Subject: [LUTE] Re: vihuela's black swan - Original Message - From: Eugene C. Braig IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: bill kilpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday,

[LUTE] Re: Carbon strings

2007-06-20 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: David Van Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 3:19 am Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: Carbon strings I wasn't trawling with a fishing line, I was using the net to gather stuff from the underwater world! Very nice! Sounds like a day on the job

[LUTE] Re: the bandore

2007-06-03 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, June 2, 2007 3:40 pm Subject: [LUTE] Re: the bandore You can hear replica instruments on some of the music recorded by the Baltimore Consort. Not to mention some other broken consort recordings. There's even a nice solo

[LUTE] Re: Another beginner's question

2007-05-02 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, May 2, 2007 5:25 pm Subject: [LUTE] Re: Another beginner's question What does every single beginner need to be reminded of? Don't plant your pinky on the front of the guitar. I've said this _thousands_of_times_ in lessons

[LUTE] Re: Another beginner's question

2007-05-02 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: David Rastall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, May 2, 2007 7:00 pm Subject: [LUTE] Re: Another beginner's question On May 2, 2007, at 5:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Museum instruments may have been cleaned and/or refinished to make them

[LUTE] Re: Another beginner's question

2007-05-01 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: Joseph Mayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, May 1, 2007 12:04 pm Subject: [LUTE] Re: Another beginner's question 2. ...bend your wrist too much like playing the classical guitar I have heard, and continue to hear this stated - it ain't so! Classical

[LUTE] Re: Another beginner's question

2007-05-01 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: Howard Posner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, May 1, 2007 1:54 pm Subject: [LUTE] Re: Another beginner's question On Tuesday, May 1, 2007, at 09:04 America/Los_Angeles, Joseph Mayes wrote: 2. ...bend your wrist too much like playing the classical

[LUTE] Re: Another beginner's question

2007-05-01 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: EUGENE BRAIG IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, May 1, 2007 2:45 pm Subject: [LUTE] Re: Another beginner's question - Original Message - From: Howard Posner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, May 1, 2007 1:54 pm Subject: [LUTE] Re: Another beginner's

[LUTE] Re: Another beginner's question

2007-05-01 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: Howard Posner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, May 1, 2007 3:08 pm Subject: [LUTE] Re: Another beginner's question The operative phrase in Joseph's statement was Classical guitarists do not - repeat do not - bend their wrists. Ah... I should have

[LUTE] Re: Another beginner's question

2007-05-01 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: Howard Posner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, May 1, 2007 3:32 pm Subject: [LUTE] Re: Another beginner's question On Tuesday, May 1, 2007, at 12:26 America/Los_Angeles, EUGENE BRAIG IV wrote: Even if rather small, I'd wager the fingers

[LUTE] Re: Stung Again

2007-04-01 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: Roman Turovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, April 1, 2007 10:46 am Subject: [LUTE] Re: Stung Again Painful it may be to some. But Sting has real Presence, and we should be grateful he used it on Dowland. i.e SOMEONE ELSE'S MATERIAL. The album is a

[LUTE] Re: [Viols] cello - Italian

2007-03-18 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: Lex Eisenhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, March 17, 2007 4:41 pm Subject: [LUTE] Re: [Viols] cello - Italian This is Millioni's way to say that we can play from alfabeto on the chitarra Italiana by omitting all that is on the fifth string. So this

[LUTE] Re: VERY OFF TOPIC! (political?)

2007-01-27 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
I saw a news segment on Egyptian oudist (is that a word?) Simon Shaheen collaborating with an Isreali violinist (I think it was Shlomo Mintz, but don't recall). I wish there was more of that in the popular news media. Kudos to your efforts, Doc. Eugene - Original Message - From: Doc

[LUTE] Re: For ambitious lutenists - iTunes

2007-01-21 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
. You had your chance. And he played All the Things You Are. Gary - Original Message - From: bill kilpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lutelist lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Cc: EUGENE BRAIG IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 9:36 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: For ambitious

[LUTE] Re: For ambitious lutenists - iTunes

2007-01-20 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: Roman Turovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, January 20, 2007 8:54 am Subject: [LUTE] For ambitious lutenists - iTunes This came up on the Delian listserv: From: nnamelet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not sure my

[LUTE] Re: looking for Albert de Rippe CD with Fantasies

2007-01-06 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
I looked around the Alice Musik site a bit. If you enter their frames page from the home page http://www.alice-musik.se/ and click Shop, you appear to be able to buy directly from the label. Eugene - Original Message - From: Werner Bogula [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, January 6,

[LUTE] Re: Sting!

2006-11-24 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: gary digman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, November 24, 2006 4:51 am Subject: [LUTE] Re: Sting! Wasn't the illustrious Paul O'Dette a rock guitarist before taking up the lute? ..as well as McFarlane. Eugene To get on or off this list see list

[LUTE] Re: Sting!

2006-11-24 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
..And the state of knowing how to play isn't necessarily a simple yes or no. It's a continuum, and any musician worth anything continues learning as his/her career progresses. So, should we only buy the one most technically perfect lute performance currently committed to CD as the only one

[LUTE] Re: Sting!

2006-11-24 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: Narada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, November 24, 2006 10:05 am Subject: RE: [LUTE] Re: Sting! Mmmm, Without digging my Focus CD's out...Elspeth of Nottingham is a track on which the lute appears... My exact reference. To get on or off this list see

[LUTE] Re: Sting!

2006-11-23 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: Bruno Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, November 23, 2006 3:54 pm Subject: [LUTE] Re: Sting! So on top of that, Sting cannot even ENUNCIATE in his own language. as for the awakening the sleeping interest we can all gain for, I am confident the

[LUTE] Re: Sting!

2006-11-22 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
Jheesh! No, I personally am not too fond of Labyrinth and am not defending it (although I'm also not criticizing it), but isn't this continued vitriol over the doings of an admitted pop musician a bit much? Regarding these words of wisdom, frankly, these sound to be quite reasonable

[LUTE] Re: ISO early guitar

2006-11-02 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: Michal Gondko [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, November 2, 2006 6:37 pm Subject: [LUTE] Re: ISO early guitar Finally, can anyone recommend a site as reputable as Wayne's Lute Page for buying one of these things?

[LUTE] Re: ISO early guitar

2006-11-02 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: Stuart Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, November 2, 2006 5:18 pm Subject: [LUTE] Re: ISO early guitar Try this: http://www.earlyromanticguitar.com/ Lots of information here. Len's site is a visual treat and a nicely catalogued source of info.

[LUTE] Re: Blackmore, was : A normal voyce ?

2006-10-26 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, October 26, 2006 11:25 am Subject: [LUTE] Re: Blackmore, was : A normal voyce ? In einer eMail vom 26.10.2006 17:20:18 Westeurop=E4ische Normalzeit schreibt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I never knew Rockettes also played

[LUTE] Re: A normal voyce ?

2006-10-24 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: Ed Durbrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 3:14 am Subject: [LUTE] Re: A normal voyce ? On Oct 24, 2006, at 5:55 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the URL was wrong it should have been http://www.myspace.com/suzannesear Got it.

[LUTE] Re: Blackmore, was : A normal voyce ?

2006-10-24 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: Roman Turovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 7:54 pm Subject: [LUTE] Blackmore, was : A normal voyce ? A colleague on a this week's film job, a propmaster, who formerly was the leadguitarist with a VERY IMPORTANT RR band (unnamed for

[LUTE] Re: Blackmore, was : A normal voyce ?

2006-10-24 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: Roman Turovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 8:17 pm Subject: [LUTE] Re: Blackmore, was : A normal voyce ? A colleague on a this week's film job, a propmaster, who formerly was the leadguitarist with a VERY IMPORTANT RR band

[LUTE] Re: Sting and his CD

2006-10-19 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: gary digman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, October 19, 2006 3:22 am Subject: [LUTE] Re: Sting and his CD Thus it would then be incorrect to refer to Dowland as the first singer/songwriter in the way we've come to understand the term singer/songwriter, i.e.

[LUTE] Re: list of great performers

2006-10-19 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
To this list and those whom others have named, I'd add Federico Marincola and (perhaps a bit reluctantly) Anthony Rooley. I also appreciated the supplemental nod to Julian Bream. Of course, as implied by my parenthetical comment, great is a matter of opinion. It seems to me that you're

[LUTE] Re: Sting and his CD

2006-10-19 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: gary digman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, October 19, 2006 3:22 am Subject: [LUTE] Re: Sting and his CD Thus it would then be incorrect to refer to Dowland as the first singer/songwriter in the way we've come to understand the term singer/songwriter, i.e.

[LUTE] Re: list of great performer

2006-10-19 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: Andreas Schlegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, October 19, 2006 9:17 am Subject: [LUTE] list of great performer Dear all Thanks a lot for all names. Some points: - I like to take only the modern players (without our fathers Bream, Ragonssnig,

[LUTE] Re: sting gossip

2006-10-17 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: bill kilpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 9:00 am Subject: [LUTE] sting gossip Could you imagine Paul O'Dette accompanying another star, AND staying in the background? ..As in Hargis O'Dette? Eugene To get on or off this list

[LUTE] Re: Is there a non-spruce topwood in your past/present/future lute?

2006-10-15 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, October 15, 2006 3:53 am Subject: [LUTE] Re: Is there a non-spruce topwood in your past/present/future lute? In the US Engleman spruce, Picea engelmanii, is often used. Regards, Craig Indeed. To get on or off this

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