[LUTE] Re: future of the lute

2020-08-27 Thread George Arndt
To my friends on the Graying Lute List: Due to a two-century long and world-wide shortage of lute players, we can now get into heaven for free! Smile, George __ From: lute-...@new-old-mail.cs.dartmouth.edu

[LUTE] Re: Strings for an English theorbo set up as a baroque lute

2020-05-03 Thread George Arndt
Hello everyone, I have been using salt-water fishing line on all my lutes for about 5 years now. For the open bass stings on my baroque lutes and arch-lute I use 150 and 200 pound-test mono-filament leaders. For octaves I use 90 pound-test. The easiest way to select the right size i

[LUTE] Seeking Purcell's Hornpipe on a Ground

2020-03-02 Thread George Arndt
Dear collected wisdon: Can someone direct me to a copy of Purcell's Hornpipe on a Ground from his Theater Music 3 The Married Beu? this may be in stave or any tablature. Thanks in advance, George __ From:

[LUTE] Re: Sorting pieces for compilation

2019-08-10 Thread George Arndt
Hello Tristan, I have made a collection of lute scores and put all of them in books by instrument (number of lute courses). I select those I play well enough to perform and put them into a "performance" book for each instrument. In that book the songs are in order of keys starting w