[LUTE] Re: Fuenllana

2013-01-03 Thread Mike Murray
I remember from an early modern lecture that the average person, a least in England, if they managed to live past 15 or so they had a good chance of living until their mid to late 60's Sent from my iPhone On Jan 3, 2013, at 4:22 PM, Sam Chapman wrote: > Interesting subject! How rare was it

[LUTE] Re: 6c guittar

2013-01-29 Thread Mike Murray
Very pretty! Sent from my iPhone On Jan 29, 2013, at 11:37 AM, Rob MacKillop wrote: > Just to get us away from all the bickering... > [1]http://youtu.be/N3YaFJxWCXk > Rob > > -- > > References > > 1. http://youtu.be/N3YaFJxWCXk > > > To get on or off this list see list informat

[LUTE] "Passamezzo Moderno"

2013-04-09 Thread mike murray
Hello wise ones. Lutz Kirchhof's The Lute in Dance and Dream was at my local Twin Cities exurb library when I was in high school and arguably was one of the foundational exposures that led me to pursuing the lute. Back in 2002, I emailed Lutz asking him where I could find the ta

[LUTE] Re: Aquila Nylgut Problems

2013-06-13 Thread mike murray
Would dipping well seasoned veteran NngA strings freshen them up? A I'm thinking of trying this but if it'd be more likely to kill them I think I'll pass On Thursday, June 13, 2013, Paolo Busato wrote: Dear all, I alredy posted the solution three months ago. Mimmo Peruffo

[LUTE] Re: Lute in North America?

2013-06-19 Thread mike murray
Milan Kovacovic, my French prof at the university of Minnesota Duluth, insisted that there wasn't an association between Greysolon and the lute because he somewhere signed his name as "Dulhut". I think I also saw his name spelled in contemporaneous documents as Duluth, however On We

[LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness

2013-08-09 Thread mike murray
Other than "why's it bent like that?" the one thing I can count on hearing from someone who's never seen a lute before is "you should play at the renaissance festival!" Tips and cd sales would be the only way of making money at that. I'd hope that I'd break even after buying some s