[LUTE] Treble rider

2015-09-24 Thread Nigel Solomon
I wonder whether someone would be so kind as to send me a drawing/template of a treble rider for a 13-course lute, I am in the process of building the pegbox. Many thanks Nigel --- L'absence de virus dans ce courrier électronique a été vérifiée par le logiciel antivirus Avast.

[LUTE] treble and ground

2015-06-28 Thread Nigel Solomon
I remember recently a kind lute player had put a selection of treble and ground lute duets on his or her site, could someone please point me in the right direction? Many thanks Nigel --- L'absence de virus dans ce courrier électronique a été vérifiée par le logiciel antivirus Avast.

[LUTE] Re: First lute advice

2009-06-12 Thread Nigel Solomon
Rob MacKillop wrote: Regarding the 8c/7c question, there are many players who switch the lower two courses around, so you have a 'normal' 7c with the 7th course at D, plus an extra F on the 8th course. I haven't done this myself, but wonder if it is a good idea? Rob -- To get

[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Is peg-box decoration safe?

2009-04-22 Thread Nigel Solomon
Nicolás Valencia wrote: Dear All, I've recently ordered a 13-course baroque lute beautifully decorated with a fretwork at the back of the peg-box. However, I'm still hesitating if this is the right choice. My question is: does it affect the peg-box strength and therefore could it be

[LUTE] Re: breaking-in a lute, not linear

2008-11-02 Thread Nigel Solomon
Rob MacKillop wrote: Other break-in methods include buying it a present on its birthday, setting a place for it at the dinner table, tying tinsel on it at Christmas, and, yes, allowing it to sleep with you when it is feeling low. Follow this, and your lute will love you forever.

[LUTE] Re: breaking-in a lute, advice

2008-10-31 Thread Nigel Solomon
Anthony Hind wrote: Dear Lutists (or should I say lutenists?° I apologize for replying to my own message, but early this morning, I realized that a recipe from Benjamin Narvey for speeding up and improving the breaking-in of a lute, does imply that this process is, in some

[BAROQUE-LUTE] Missing Weiss

2008-08-01 Thread Nigel Solomon
I am currently working on the C major suite in the Tree edition of 6 Weiss suites (the one that begins with an entrée, suite 12) but the last few bars are missing from the courante. Peter Lay from the English Lute Society says they were damaged but exist in another copy, the Das Erbe Deutscher

[LUTE] Missing weiss

2008-08-01 Thread Nigel Solomon
I have been sent the missing Weiss bars, so please do not go to any trouble to find them. (thanks anyway if you were going to look) Nigel To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Heluth

2008-07-02 Thread Nigel Solomon
Beginning to get a bit fed up with heluth. Does he/she know how to use a computer? To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] 13-course tension

2008-03-30 Thread Nigel Solomon
I was wondering what tension people put on the 2 bass-rider strings of a 13-course lute. I have been putting around 2.4 Kg bass and 2.2 octave, it seems a bit slack (the other strings around 2.8 and 2.6) Thanks Nigel To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] harpsichord music

2008-02-23 Thread Nigel Solomon
Sorry, this is not lute stuff, but a friend has asked me to find the score of any Spanish or Portugese Follia or Chaconne for solo harpsichord for a concert she is playing in soon. Any ides anyone? Thanks, Nigel To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] Actus Tragicus

2008-02-14 Thread Nigel Solomon
I have been asked to play theorbo accompaniment in Bach's Actus Tragicus cantata. The performance will be in F rather than Eb (for the recorders). Does anybody have a score of the work in F with the figured bass? Thanks Nigel To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] theorbo size

2008-01-31 Thread Nigel Solomon
Just out of interest, what size chitaronne do you think Piccinini was playing when he wrote his pieces? I used to have a 92cm chitaronne and I can tell you not many of those pieces are playable on a monster like that. The theorbo I have now measures 85 cm and even then a lot of the pieces are

[LUTE] guitar stringing

2008-01-28 Thread Nigel Solomon
Talking of stringing, where does the idea come from of having the octave string on guitars uppermost (i.e. towards the ceiling). It seems common practice. Nigel To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Baroque lute pitch

2007-12-10 Thread Nigel Solomon
What strikes me about the pitch we tune baroque lutes to is that it seems to depend on 2 or 3 cms of string length (67 to 69cm = 415 / 71 to 74cm = 392). On the other hand, if you look at theorbos most are tuned to A 440 or 415 whatever the size. I have played theorbos measuring 74 cm up to 99

[LUTE] baroque lute + recorder

2007-12-09 Thread Nigel Solomon
Any ideas for pieces with baroque lute (13-course) and treble recorder? Most of the chamber music repertoire seems to be for flute/violin + Cello + lute. Nigel To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: Old lutes...

2007-12-08 Thread Nigel Solomon
Anthony Hind wrote: Arto If the Rauwolf is a key to the question, David is right, and old wood seems to go on improving. I was told that flat soundboard instruments can suddenly die, but the Rauwolf's soundboard is a few hundred years old. They can also be resound-boarded if there is

[LUTE] Re: Swanneck

2007-12-02 Thread Nigel Solomon
Daniel Shoskes wrote: On Dec 2, 2007, at 4:40 AM, Nigel Solomon wrote: Admitedly I was using wound strings (has anybody ever tried keeping 24 gut strings in tune successfully for the time needed to play a single Weiss courante?). That is what I find interesting though. Long gut

[LUTE] Re: Swanneck

2007-12-02 Thread Nigel Solomon
with, as compared to wound strings. ed At 10:40 AM 12/2/2007 +0100, Nigel Solomon wrote: (has anybody ever tried keeping 24 gut strings in tune successfully for the time needed to play a single Weiss courante?). Edward Martin 2817 East 2nd Street Duluth, Minnesota 55812 e-mail: [EMAIL

[LUTE] Spinaccino

2007-12-01 Thread Nigel Solomon
Looks like he wrote for a small lute (in A?) looking at some of the chord shapes and hand stretches. Has anybody played these pieces on a larger (60 - 64) lute? Nigel To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: Tuning blues

2007-11-20 Thread Nigel Solomon
Benjamin Stehr wrote: Hi Steward, i choosed a tension that works well in 440 on the extension of my theorbo. Changing to 415 caused the 8th course to touch the fretboard when playing very loud, but putting something under the saddle on the extension (about 1mm) increased the forward pull on

[LUTE] vivaldi

2007-11-13 Thread Nigel Solomon
Everything about it screams guitar to me: the sound, the nails, the general approach. Yes, a guitar that looks a bit like a lute! Nigel To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Vivaldi

2007-11-13 Thread Nigel Solomon
Everything about it screams guitar to me: the sound, the nails, the general approach. Yes, a guitar that looks a bit like a lute! To me, everything about it screams liuto attiorbato, like a good many historical instruments in museums with fingerboard lengths under 60 cm and

[LUTE] Re: Vivaldi

2007-11-13 Thread Nigel Solomon
Roman Turovsky wrote: Are any single strung? All of the existing liuto attiorbato, to my You might have missed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ang%C3%A9lique_%28instrument%29 knowledge at least, are double strung on the fingerboard and most are double strung on the diapasons as well. I'm

[LUTE] theorbo string tension

2007-10-02 Thread Nigel Solomon
My theorbo is 85/170, I'm thinking of putting 5 kg string (the 4.2 I have at present seems a bit low). How much tension do people put on their large theorbos? My idea would be to put 5 kg for 440 and keep the same strings for 415 (which would give around 4.5 kg), which is the pitch I keep it at

[LUTE] nylgut tensions

2007-03-27 Thread Nigel Solomon
Talking about Nylgut, does everybody calculate tensions as for gut or do they add a little more (i.e. 0.40 gut = 0.42 Nylgut) Sometimes the tensions with Nylgut can feel a little slack to me Nigel To get on or off this list see list information at

Concert

2004-05-09 Thread Nigel Solomon
. 40 people). Please contact me if you would like details. Nigel Solomon