[LUTE] Re: student lutes (Re: Who wants to sell "New Boy" a lute?)

2005-10-29 Thread Vance Wood
Amen: It does not matter if you use Nylon, Gut or Graphite and have the most brilliantly constructed Lute on the planet, if you play like you are wearing boxing gloves it will sound like you are wearing boxing gloves. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "Manolo Laguillo&quo

[LUTE] Re: writing divisions

2005-11-05 Thread Vance Wood
pieces like Lachremae, or ground and treble duets. Studying these sources will give you an idea of how they were used. Most English pieces are full of examples of theme and ornamentation with divisions, simply disceting these pieces should give you some sort of idea how they were used. Vance Wood

[LUTE] Re: Repetitive Stress Syndrome

2005-11-05 Thread Vance Wood
away. Try to relax the right arm. I hope this helps in some way if nothing more than making you think about the tension in your body. I look forward to more informed responses. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "Craig Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lute L

[LUTE] Re: octaves on 7 course lute

2005-11-05 Thread Vance Wood
Personally I don't like octaves on any course. As to why the placement of octaves would change with the addition of the seventh course? All anyone can tell you is not much more than an informed assumption that with the arrival of the seventh course the music changed. Vance Wood. - Ori

[LUTE] Re: Left hand tension

2005-11-05 Thread Vance Wood
. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 2:07 AM Subject: [LUTE] Left hand tension > >Can anyone suggest method of relieving tension in left hand. I have adopted >the use of a strap so as not to hav

[LUTE] Re: Repetitive Stress Syndrome

2005-11-05 Thread Vance Wood
know enough about it in other areas to be critical. I would recomend it to anyone who has the opportunity to access a good teacher. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "Denys Stephens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "lute net" Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2005 11:45 AM

[LUTE] Re: french baroque lute painting

2005-11-05 Thread Vance Wood
glean from examining it as a real Lute. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "David Van Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2005 12:43 PM Subject: [LUTE] french baroque lute painting > Dear Taco, > > The picture is an anonymous French S

[LUTE] Re: Fingering question

2005-11-07 Thread Vance Wood
After rethinking my previous response I should have included that a lot depends on what comes after and what preceeded it. Your fingering is correct in most cases that I can imagine. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 8

[LUTE] Re: another fingering question

2005-11-08 Thread Vance Wood
you get the hang of it the technique will simplify a lot of more difficult passages. Where you now may be using two fingers you could use one. It is even possible to play diminutions off of this configuration. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "Arto Wikla" <[EMAIL P

[LUTE] Re: UnHIP overspun strings.

2005-11-08 Thread Vance Wood
ed. It is not too dificult to deaden the bass response when necessary with overspuns, as opposed to just allowing it to fade out naturally as is the practice of some with more traditional strings. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "Herbert Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To

[LUTE] Re: Now we are one, forever (New Boy Gets Lute, and a cherry tree dies)

2005-11-10 Thread Vance Wood
point where you understand that you are not getting a good sound out of the Lute and must change your technique if you are to improve. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "Garry Bryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "saw 192837" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursd

[LUTE] Re: Octave string question

2005-11-16 Thread Vance Wood
o consider better options than plain old nylon. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "LGS-Europe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lute List" Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 1:54 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Octave string question > >> > playing late 16th

[LUTE] Re: Octave string question

2005-11-17 Thread Vance Wood
se, see: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~lsa/associated/index.html#Lautenweltadressbuch If you do a search, typing 15 into the date field, you will see quite a few hits for instruments originally built in the 1500s. Regards, Daniel Heiman On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:32:02 -0500 "Vance Woo

[LUTE] Re: Computer analysis of double string sound.

2005-11-19 Thread Vance Wood
never go back to the Guitar. I still have problems making chords do this but single notes against a base line are no problem for me. Anyone with any suggestions as how to remedy this issue short of amputation would be welcomed. Vance Wood - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTEC

[LUTE] Re: Octave string question

2005-11-19 Thread Vance Wood
tmare a' la Murphy's Law. The quest for the perfect string, or more authentic string is actually just begining. But I feel in the end, if there is to be one, we will settel for some sort of sythetic man made string that is neither historically correct or totally organic. Vance Wood.

[LUTE] Re: Computer analysis of double string sound.

2005-11-20 Thread Vance Wood
Thanks Stephan You have helped me before, I'll work on that little bit of information and try to adapt it. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2005 5:23 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Computer analysis of double string sound.

[LUTE] Re: tele-Teaching

2005-11-23 Thread Vance Wood
Rob: I agree with you it could be a very useful endeavour. You play Vihuela?, that's close enough. By the way, do you use the doubled first course? I understand that is the way the Vihuela is designed but everyone I have heard talk about the subject do not use the doubled first course. Vance -

[LUTE] Re: tele-Teaching

2005-11-23 Thread Vance Wood
ourse. If you do use the doubled first I would be interested in how you find this different than playing with a single first course as would be common on the Lute. Vance - Original Message - From: "Rob MacKillop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Vance Wood'" <

[LUTE] Re: tele-Teaching

2005-11-24 Thread Vance Wood
t;Rob MacKillop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Vance Wood'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'lute list'" Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 2:54 AM Subject: RE: [LUTE] Re: tele-Teaching > I use a single. Always have. > > Does anyone here use a doub

[LUTE] Re: tele-Teaching

2005-11-24 Thread Vance Wood
le first course seems to be out of line to you and of questionable credibility you are probably correct and I have been playing it wrong. But that does not change the fact that the doubled first course makes a beautiful and unique sound I doubt many here have heard or considered. Vance Wood.

[LUTE] Re: Sir Henry Guilforde his Almaine

2005-12-08 Thread Vance Wood
wland. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "Ken Brodkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lute List (E-mail)" Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 1:14 PM Subject: [LUTE] Sir Henry Guilforde his Almaine > Hello All, > > Is John Dowland the composer of &

[LUTE] Re: Sir Henry Guilforde his Almaine

2005-12-09 Thread Vance Wood
on it to prove you are wrong. In this case I hope that happens because I too want to know. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "Ken Brodkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Vance Wood'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 11:10 P

[LUTE] Re: STOLEN LUTE

2005-12-14 Thread Vance Wood
Before checking construction dates I would suggest checking pawn-shops. VW - Original Message - From: "Robert Clair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lute List" Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 9:59 AM Subject: [LUTE] STOLEN LUTE > Lute stolen in New York City, on 12/7/05: > > 8 course ten

[LUTE] Re: tuning

2005-12-17 Thread Vance Wood
oticed anything being so out of tune that it colored the performance. Is it not possible we are placing too much significance on this issue? We know that the foundering fathers played in all sorts of groups. Do you think they agonized over the problem the way some of us are doing? Vance Wood

[LUTE] Re: Sound vs studiness trade-off.

2005-12-21 Thread Vance Wood
I am thinking that there is probably a point where the actual weight/mass of the instrument plays a significant role in the sound of the instrument. I am also certian that someone has done some sort of research project full of charts and graphs demonstrating their point of view/theory. Personally

[LUTE] Re: Sound vs studiness trade-off.

2005-12-22 Thread Vance Wood
described I think the traditionalist would string their next Lute with your inards. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: Greet Schamp To: Vance Wood Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 8:04 AM Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: Sound vs studiness trade-off. Hello Vance, Actually I know a

[LUTE] Re: Sound vs studiness trade-off.

2005-12-23 Thread Vance Wood
picture of which I could not find, is a tantalizing clue that should be explored more carefully. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "Louis Aull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 10:22 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Sound vs studiness trade-off. > Va

[LUTE] Re: Sound vs studiness trade-off

2005-12-23 Thread Vance Wood
Louis: You did not understand what I was saying. I was saying that the grain in the braces, was parrallel with the grain in the sound board/belly/top of the Lute, even though the braces are set more or less 90degress to the orientation of the top. So we do not have another misunderstanding I und

[LUTE] Re: Sound vs studiness trade-off

2005-12-23 Thread Vance Wood
Louis: You did not understand what I was saying. I was saying that the grain in the braces, was parrallel with the grain in the sound board/belly/top of the Lute, even though the braces are set more or less 90degress to the orientation of the top. So we do not have another misunderstanding I und

[LUTE] Re: Fuenllana and Sarmaticae

2005-12-26 Thread Vance Wood
play the Lute. It is great to have some really first rate Spanish music to play, most of the Spanish repertoire I have found boring. Admittedly my exposure to it has been small. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "Rob MacKillop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday,

[LUTE] Re: double fisrst course

2005-12-28 Thread Vance Wood
two strings vibrate back and forth against each other producing what sounds like a natsy fret rattle. In other words you go with the string tension on both strings that you would use for the course if it were single. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "LGS-Europe" <[EM

[LUTE] Re: double fisrst course

2006-01-02 Thread Vance Wood
f the single first course. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "LGS-Europe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 2:51 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: double fisrst course > > David, please tell us how it works

[LUTE] Re: double fisrst course

2006-01-03 Thread Vance Wood
. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "LGS-Europe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lute net" Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 3:24 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: double fisrst course > > For what it's worth I have been using a doubled first course on an eight &g

[LUTE] Re: Magnus Tieffenbrucker

2006-01-10 Thread Vance Wood
by some fifty years or so. Vance Wood - Original Message - From: "Christopher Challen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 4:15 AM Subject: [LUTE] Magnus Tieffenbrucker > Hello all aficionados of the lute, this is my first posting and so hope it reache

[LUTE] Re: Magnus Tieffenbrucker

2006-01-10 Thread Vance Wood
em being from the original Tieffenbrucker group, but probably the result of a later repair or conversion. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "Benjamin Narvey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Vance Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "lute list" ; "Chr

[LUTE] Re: Question on Lute stringing

2006-01-16 Thread Vance Wood
if it is still there you should be able to find it. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "James A Stimson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Steve Walters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "List - Lute" Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 8:54 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Qu

[LUTE] Re: Standard tablature

2006-01-26 Thread Vance Wood
ile editions in which case they are basically photo copies of the original old print or manuscript. I hops in some way I have provided you with the answers you were looking for. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "dc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LUTE-LIST" Sent:

[LUTE] Re: Standard tablature

2006-01-26 Thread Vance Wood
Lutenist would prefer is likely to be more a personal preference that can vary from player to player. A player with enough experience and ability probably plays both forms equally well and probably wont care much. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "dc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[LUTE] Re: Best lute video ever

2006-02-11 Thread Vance Wood
Those were my thoughts. Where's the beef? Or in this case, where is the Lute? - Original Message - From: "Ed Durbrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "lute list" Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 5:03 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Best lute video ever > There wasn't any lute in t

[LUTE] Re: not so many 6 course lutes?

2006-02-17 Thread Vance Wood
. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "marigold castle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 6:59 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: not so many 6 course lutes? > This is an issue very close to my heart at the moment as I'm shopping for a first lute. S

[LUTE] Re: Hello from total newbies who are in for the "long haul"

2006-03-18 Thread Vance Wood
e the opportunity to go to Cleveland you might find the Lute you want for sale there. Also if you have the opportunity to take some lessons from some of the great in Lute performance I would go for it. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "Christopher Witmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[LUTE] Re: Plectrum guards on top

2006-03-19 Thread Vance Wood
Actually we have no survivors. Understanding that the argument is made that the use of the thumb in finger technique was a direct result of the hand position used with the plectrum, it is not likely that a pick guard was necessary. I don't think the first Lute players banged away on the Lute the

[LUTE] Re: Sound

2006-03-20 Thread Vance Wood
arder stiffer heart wood (dark redish brown) against the softer sap wood ( white to light tan). Had the staves been of Maple, Sycamore, or some tropical hard wood it is more likley they would have been much wider. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "Alfonso Marin" <[EM

[LUTE] Re: Luthiers

2006-03-21 Thread Vance Wood
be able to get four Lutes out of the bunch. You should know I am an amature builder and build Lutes only for myslef at this point. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "Taco Walstra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Rebecca Banks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: &q

[LUTE] Re: New to the List

2006-03-23 Thread Vance Wood
Hi Bill: I particularly appreciated your inclusion of the link to Mike's Oud forum. I would love to see this list, or something like it take on that form and application. It is a great deal more interesting and easy to follow than a bunch of oft disjointed emails clogging the inbox. And of course

[LUTE] Re: Can anyone provide some insight into this instrument for me?

2006-03-26 Thread Vance Wood
good Lutes you could be looking at $2000 for a similar instrument were you to have it made, sadly that is on the cheap side for a ten course. However not knowing the maker and how it is made I would offer $500 and go up from there. You could get lucky. Vance Wood. - Original Message

[LUTE] Re: Playing With Nails

2006-03-26 Thread Vance Wood
rings you are supposed to. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "David Rastall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2006 9:56 AM Subject: [LUTE] Playing With Nails > Hello luters, > > Just out of curiosity: how many of you, if any, play the lute wi

[LUTE] Re: Playing With Nails

2006-03-26 Thread Vance Wood
That's the way the Lute is supposed to sound, more of a soft shoe. - Original Message - From: "Mayes, Joseph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LGS-Europe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Lutelist" Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2006 5:35 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Playing With Nails > For me - playing without nails

[LUTE] Re: Playing With Nails

2006-03-27 Thread Vance Wood
operly you will get just as loud a sound as you will get with the nails before distortion sets in. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "Mayes, Joseph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Vance Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "lute list" Sent: Monday, March 27,

[LUTE] Re: Overtly religious ouvre?

2006-03-27 Thread Vance Wood
g, being a Christian and disappointed that the instrument you love does not have a tradition that allows you to play the kind of music you would like from original sources and performers. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "Christopher Witmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lu

[LUTE] Re: Griffiths and Bermudo

2006-03-28 Thread Vance Wood
Very interesting, too bad the music was not included. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "Rob MacKillop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 1:49 AM Subject: [LUTE] Griffiths and Bermudo > The English translation of John Griffiths' vi

[LUTE] Re: Grain texture on soundboard.

2006-03-30 Thread Vance Wood
It may be from places where you are consistantly touching the wood, either where you anchor your little finger, right hand, or where the left hand tends to touch the sound board in the higher registers, or where you may tend to occassionally rest your chin or cheek on the top of the top side of the

[LUTE] Re: The lute builder as woodworker.

2006-04-03 Thread Vance Wood
table. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "Herbert Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 6:25 PM Subject: [LUTE] The lute builder as woodworker. > > Aplogies to those who find this slightly off topic. > > Does a good lute builder know

[LUTE] Re: Predicting quality during construction.

2006-04-06 Thread Vance Wood
his will change in a few years, and continue changing for many years, in subtle ways. You may have a good idea knowing that you did everything right and you tuned the sound board, but sometimes the inteplay between different woods cannot be totally predicted. It's a lot like having c

[LUTE] Re: 1733 ebay lute for a mere...

2006-04-07 Thread Vance Wood
>From what I am hearing about this instrument I would take a close look at it, in my rear view mirror moving away from it at a rapid pace. I think you are going to get taken if you purchase this instrument. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "Steve Ramey" <[EMAI

[LUTE] Re: 1733 ebay lute for a mere ...

2006-04-07 Thread Vance Wood
It appears to be a 19th or 20th century conversion or rip-off of an older Lute. It obviously has metal or Guitar like frets, the peg box is not original and the bridge again looks like it might possibly have, or at one time had, a saddle like a Guitar. This is what we used to call a Galute. The b

[LUTE] Re: 1733 ebay lute for a mere ...

2006-04-08 Thread Vance Wood
- Original Message - From: "Vance Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Rob Dorsey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 11:17 AM Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: 1733 ebay lute for a mere ... > It is possible that the bowel is an original 1733 bowel

[LUTE] Re: 1733 ebay lute for a mere ...

2006-04-08 Thread Vance Wood
- Original Message - From: "Vance Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Rob Dorsey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 12:24 PM Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: 1733 ebay lute for a mere ... > Thanks Rob for the non-sarcastic response. I agree with

[LUTE] Re: boiling strings (nylon)

2006-04-14 Thread Vance Wood
and see what happens. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "Herbert Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "bill kilpatrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Ed Durbrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "LuteNet list" Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 1:27 PM S

[LUTE] Re: What is it?

2006-04-15 Thread Vance Wood
- Original Message - From: "Vance Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2006 8:24 AM Subject: Re: [LUTE] What is it? > I know virtually nothing of Medieval instruments but from the looks of it, > and the fact both instr

[LUTE] Re: videos deleted

2006-04-29 Thread Vance Wood
That's too bad Thomas, I thought they were worth auditing and enjoyed them. Having said that I would certainly like to see some of the same from the critics. I wish you would leave them up unitil I can download them at anyrate. VW - Original Message - From: "Thomas Schall" <[EMAIL PROTEC

[LUTE] Re: videos deleted

2006-05-01 Thread Vance Wood
ature than the Lute gods we now worship. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "Thomas Schall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "lutelist" Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 1:37 PM Subject: [LUTE] videos deleted > Hi all, > > after the receipt of harsh cri

[LUTE] Re: videos deleted

2006-05-01 Thread Vance Wood
7;t know and have never heard play telling me my playing sucks and so does my Lute. It's too bad this group has taken this turn, and I think it will be a long time before it turns back. Thomas---thanks for your courage and thanks for exposing a serious chink in the armor of those of us who are

[LUTE] Re: videos deleted

2006-05-01 Thread Vance Wood
I know you play David, but did you tell Thomas he couldn't or should delete his videos? And is this what we want? No one learns who does not try. That's just simple wisdom. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "David Rastall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Van

[LUTE] Re: videos deleted

2006-05-01 Thread Vance Wood
- Original Message - From: "Vance Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David Rastall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 2:36 PM Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: videos deleted > Thank You David, I did not think it was you and agree with everything else

[LUTE] Re: videos deleted

2006-05-01 Thread Vance Wood
had this happen to me several times but understanding we were not impugning someone's heritage or assigning oedipal tendencies, no harm has been done. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "David Rastall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "bill kilpatrick" <

[LUTE] Re: lute straps

2006-05-02 Thread Vance Wood
You are a funny man David. Levitateing Lutes, whoever heard of such a thing-would that be the original Air Lute? I'm sorry I just couldn't resist this one. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "David Rastall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED

[LUTE] Re: Lute straps

2006-05-03 Thread Vance Wood
That's a funny thing about the way different people's minds work. When I memorize music I don't memorize the tablature I memorize the music. I could no more remember a line of tab than fly, though I guess if I could visualize the tab. memorization would be a lot easier. - Original Message ---

[LUTE] Re: Body pain (was Re: lute straps)

2006-05-04 Thread Vance Wood
Here is something else I would like to know if anyone has tried? Ti Chi? I have found it to be a very good, but not aggressive, exercise that stretches more than taxes joints and muscles. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "guy_and_liz Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[LUTE] Re: lute straps

2006-05-04 Thread Vance Wood
umble through passages where there are a lot of shifts up and down the neck, even if it is only one fret. Three: It forces the left hand to multitask and as such is a probable cause of a lot of physical problems down the road. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "Howard Posne

[LUTE] Re: lute straps (genuinely about straps and lutes)

2006-05-07 Thread Vance Wood
I would assume if you make the mistake of screwing the peg into the joint itself you will have a problem, the peg should be screwed into the neck block. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "guy_and_liz Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Sa

[LUTE] Re: A "normal" voyce ?

2006-10-23 Thread vance wood
It is interesting to listen to this presentation. It has been hypothesized that Dowland came from Ireland. Listening to Flow My Tears in this version I really perceive a Celtic flavor I had never noticed before. No culture sings a sad song so sweetly like the Celts. Vance Wood

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

2006-10-28 Thread vance wood
I think when you come at this issue by way of Bach you are forgetting that Bach is an icon. I know of no composer who has been more studied, more defined, more argued about, and more used to define musical form in the Universities of Western Culture than Bach. Does this make him the best? Hel

[LUTE] Re: How has lute music survived?

2006-12-09 Thread vance wood
Aside from the physical survival of manuscripts and ancient publications, these would be nothing more than historical documents and oddities if it were not for the extremely high quality of the music they preserve. This is much more reinforced by the fact that the majority of it can only be rea

[LUTE] Re: Preventing buzz with the 'a' finger.

2007-01-13 Thread vance wood
sound board as well, which you should not do. If that is so that is the source of your problem. vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "Alan Barnosky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 3:24 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Preventing buzz with the '

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

2007-01-26 Thread vance wood
Why don't you go sleep it off Arto? - Original Message - From: "Arto Wikla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 6:32 PM Subject: [LUTE] VERY OFF TOPIC! (political?) > > Dear all, > > it is going bad! Mr. Bush - the winner of the USA elections, the man > chosen by (nea

[LUTE] Re: a couple of questions about home-made bridges

2007-01-27 Thread vance wood
Are you dealing with an instrument that you don't want to ruin, or is it an instrument that is impossible to ruin. I mean no offence, but if you have a good Lute you might be well advised to at least get Lundberg's book on historical Lute building and learn a little about bridges and their re

[LUTE] Re: a couple of questions about home-made bridges

2007-01-27 Thread vance wood
es to doing things cheap and easy I am all in favor--within reason. Some things cannot be done so, they require a degree of skill and care. - Original Message - From: "Stuart Walsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "vance wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Saturday,

[LUTE] Re: Dowland portrait

2007-02-02 Thread vance wood
I would like to know that as well. - Original Message - From: "Stewart McCoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lute Net" Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 1:45 PM Subject: [LUTE] Dowland portrait > Please could anyone tell me if the alleged portrait of Dowland - the > one to be found on the B

[LUTE] Re: Dowland portrait

2007-02-04 Thread vance wood
Vance, > > The web address is > > http://www.musikhistorie.dk/sider/temaer/komponister/giardino_novo_s > tor.html > > It was kindly supplied by Arne Keller. > > Best wishes, > > Stewart McCoy. > > - Original Message - > From: "vance wood" <

[LUTE] Re: Dowland portrait

2007-02-04 Thread vance wood
Thank you all for supplying the correct URL, I did get it cut and paste. - Original Message - From: "Edward Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "vance wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Lute List" Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 1:02 PM Subject: Re: [LUT

[LUTE] Re: Dowland portrait

2007-02-04 Thread vance wood
I think it might be an Orpharion understanding the Dowland wrote music for that instrument. Seen from the back it is almost impossible to determine a body shape and an Orpharion neck is longer than a Lute neck if memory serves me correctly. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Fw: Rob MacKillop changing professions

2003-10-08 Thread Vance Wood
- Original Message - From: "Vance Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ed Durbrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 8:23 PM Subject: Re: Rob MacKillop changing professions > I know about frustration and a need to put food on the table, es

Re: looking for a "lutar" - forwarded

2003-10-11 Thread Vance Wood
s the most dominant musical instrument of the period, out side the human voice. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 12:39 PM Subject: Re: looking for a "lutar" - forwarded > Jo

Re: lute vs.guitar / how to convert the guitarist?

2003-10-12 Thread Vance Wood
have to use a proper technique. I know this can be done because this is what Julian Bream used to do, play the Guitar with nails and the Lute without, and this is in the same concert. I asked him about this after a performance I was privileged to attend many years ago. So it can be done. Vance

Fw: MO's attacks. Final, para mi

2003-10-12 Thread Vance Wood
- Original Message - From: "Vance Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Matanya Ophee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 8:04 PM Subject: Re: MO's attacks. Final, para mi > Not wanting to get into this debate on the political level, M

Re: lute vs.guitar / how to convert the guitarist?

2003-10-13 Thread Vance Wood
I did not ask him exactly how he did this or how he filed his nails. All I know is this is what he told me. There was an entire room full of people that wanted to talk to him so he did not have time to be specific. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "Ed Durbrow" <[EM

Re: lute vs.guitar / how to convert the guitarist?

2003-10-13 Thread Vance Wood
. "Please forgive me if I come to a screeching halt in the middle of this piece, I broke a finger nail, the Guitar is played with the nails and the Lute without." Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "Lindberg Richard-MGIA0539" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'

Re: lute vs.guitar/how to convert guitarist?/orpharion anyone?

2003-10-13 Thread Vance Wood
your finger attack correct. Incidentally, Mr. Bream played with = the thumb out as on a Guitar and he (as I remember) did not anchor the = pinky of the right hand. Vance Wood. - Original Message -=20 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday

Re: how to convert guitarist?/orpharion anyone?

2003-10-14 Thread Vance Wood
early days when I taught Guitar, one of the books I used was the Carcassi method. I guess this book was originally written in the 19th Century, but he advocated finger tips, no nails. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[

Re: Re: Dowland

2003-10-15 Thread Vance Wood
about Dowland's dance pieces being more recital compositions than pieces to be danced to gets a mark in the win column. Either way it brings up some thought on both sides of the issue. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent:

Re: fret diameters

2003-10-19 Thread Vance Wood
taught that painters from this period had an almost obsession with, what we would call photographic, accuracy in their work. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "Gernot Hilger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jon Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Holbein, addendum

2003-10-20 Thread Vance Wood
rendition of a subject may not be accurate. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "Jon Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gernot Hilger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 9:14 AM Subject: Holbein, addendum > Forg

Re: Holbein, addendum

2003-10-21 Thread Vance Wood
point considered un-Godly and therefore forbidden in some circles, especially the extremely contrapuntal compositions. I wish I could remember where I ran across this bit of information but I remember it clearly. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "Ed Durbrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Holbein, addendum

2003-10-21 Thread Vance Wood
considering the Martin Luther is said to have played the Lute though nothing is said as to how well or how often. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "lutesmith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 7:08 PM Subject: Re: Holb

Re: Holbein, addendum

2003-10-21 Thread Vance Wood
Paganinni was said to have sold his soul to the devil. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "lutesmith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 7:56 PM Subject: Re: Holbein, addendum > > Vance, > > > >It is my underst

Re: How long can a lute last?

2003-10-23 Thread Vance Wood
t they are repairable. I will be interested to review additional answers to your question. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "Herbert Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 6:48 PM Subject: How long can a lute last? > >

Right Hand Questions

2003-10-24 Thread Vance Wood
to be true and if so how do you maintain this condition through a session lasting more than fifteen minutes? Or as I suspect what am I doing wrong ? Vance Wood.

Re: Right Hand Questions

2003-10-25 Thread Vance Wood
left with the conclusion that the remedy is in the skin of the hands and not the direction or method of articulation. I appreciate the efforts of all who have replied to my question and will try some of the alternatives mentioned. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "Serge-André C

Re: Right Hand Questions

2003-10-25 Thread Vance Wood
es. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "bill sterling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "lute list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Serge-André Comeau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Vance Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 25,

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