[LUTE] Re: Ownership

2005-09-22 Thread Jon Murphy
Craig, Indeed. Um, you don't own any rocking chairs do you? My cat solved the rocking chair problem, she springs to the seat and then to the top, and rides the waves. But then she may be planning ahead about the tails of any potential feline interlopers. Best, Jon To get on or off this

[LUTE] Re: Ownership

2005-09-21 Thread Craig Allen
Carl wrote: --On Monday, September 19, 2005 7:03 PM -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carl wrote: I don't know how this came to be an inventory of lutes and cats, but... we just took in a stray mother with a litter of 6. That's cats, not lutes. (sigh) With all those cats you'll certainly

[LUTE] Re: Ownership

2005-09-20 Thread Jon Murphy
Carl, Congratulations on the litter, and for taking in the stray. I note that the expected comments on lute string supplies have come in. My one cat (the vet calls her dilute tortoise shell, I call her muddy grey) is a feral refugee. Born in a friend's garage with littermates, but then taken back

[LUTE] Re: Ownership

2005-09-20 Thread Carl Donsbach
--On Monday, September 19, 2005 7:03 PM -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carl wrote: I don't know how this came to be an inventory of lutes and cats, but... we just took in a stray mother with a litter of 6. That's cats, not lutes. (sigh) Good news is I recently finished repairing the 13c I

[LUTE] Re: Ownership

2005-09-20 Thread Edward Martin
How about: Loaded, Gimped, Lyon, and Wound for cat names? ed At 06:17 PM 9/20/2005 -0600, Carl Donsbach wrote: --On Monday, September 19, 2005 7:03 PM -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carl wrote: I don't know how this came to be an inventory of lutes and cats, but... we just took in a

[LUTE] Re: Ownership

2005-09-19 Thread Carl Donsbach
Greetings, I don't know how this came to be an inventory of lutes and cats, but... we just took in a stray mother with a litter of 6. That's cats, not lutes. (sigh) Good news is I recently finished repairing the 13c I built, and am now building a case for it. -Carl Donsbach To get on or

[LUTE] Re: Ownership

2005-09-19 Thread bill kilpatrick
--- Carl Donsbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know how this came to be an inventory of lutes and cats, but... we just took in a stray mother with a litter of 6. very gutsy of you carl. and thus i made...a small vihuela from the shell of a creepy crawly... - Don Gonzalo de Guerrero

[LUTE] Re: Ownership

2005-09-19 Thread corun
Carl wrote: I don't know how this came to be an inventory of lutes and cats, but... we just took in a stray mother with a litter of 6. That's cats, not lutes. (sigh) Good news is I recently finished repairing the 13c I built, and am now building a case for it. With all those cats you'll

[LUTE] Re: Ownership

2005-09-16 Thread Ed Durbrow
On Sep 9, 2005, at 7:29 PM, bill kilpatrick wrote: if you'd care to share in the dream, check this: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ViewItemitem=7349190831rd=1sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AITrd=1 Someone got a good deal. Winning bid: US $62.74 From the pictures it looked like a beautiful

[LUTE] Re: Ownership

2005-09-16 Thread bill kilpatrick
yes; what makes it is the retro-style bridge. closely spaced wood grain on the sound board is a consideration and i'm starting to believe that a truss rod of some sort in the neck is an essential as well - particularly for those carved from a single piece of wood. maybe the new owner will

[LUTE] Re: Ownership

2005-09-11 Thread KennethBeLute
As for me... lutes: 5 course plectrum (Brown) 6 course (Tomlinson) 6 course (Nurse) 6 course alto (Greenhood) 7 course (Bowers) 10 course (Brown) 11 course (Tomlinson) 14 course archlute (from kit) others: 4 course gitarra latina 4 course ren. guitar 5 course bar. guitar 7 course vihuela

[LUTE] Re: Ownership

2005-09-11 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
- Original Message - From: James A Stimson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, September 9, 2005 11:13 pm Subject: [LUTE] Re: Ownership OK, time for me to fess up: 7-course descant (Fletcher) 6-course treble (Nurse) 6-course tenor vihuela (Mateus) 8-course tenor (Fletcher) 6-course

[LUTE] Re: Ownership

2005-09-09 Thread Spring, aus dem, Rainer
One 10 course Renaissance, Martin Shepherd One 8 course Renaissance, Martin Shepherd One 6c guitar, Imai Schnuddel, a 7.0 Kg Maine Coon Kischi, a 6.5 Kg Maine Coon a few cheapo lutes and guitars not worth mentioning... Best wishes, Rainer aus dem Spring IS department, development Tel.: +49

[LUTE] Re: Ownership

2005-09-09 Thread Martin Shepherd
I'm glad Rainer owned up about the Maine Coons - I'm always worried they're going to eat my lutes. Maybe you guys should start a Maine Coon list Martin P.S. OK I have a wife, three children and three cats, two British shorthair and one Blue Burmese - enough legs for anyone to look after.

[LUTE] Re: Ownership

2005-09-09 Thread bill kilpatrick
.. and no charangos. tsk-tsk. if you'd care to share in the dream, check this: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=7349190831rd=1sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AITrd=1 7 dogs ... mutts (big ones) - bill and thus i made...a small vihuela from the shell of a creepy crawly... - Don

[LUTE] Re: Ownership

2005-09-09 Thread Mathias Rösel
each time, my former wife said: Okay, and this is the last one, right...? This will do, okay? 7c descant after Tieffenbrucker (Heiko Schmiedel) 8c after Hieber (Larry Brown) 8c mandora after Niggel (Wolfgang Emmerich) 11c after Berr (Ivo Magherini) 13c after Martin Hoffmann (Wolfgang Emmerich)

[LUTE] Re: Ownership

2005-09-09 Thread Herbert Ward
7c Frei lute by S. Barber Steinway piano model S (baby grand) Martin D18 steel string guitar Fender Stratocaster 1960s electric guitar (: To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: Ownership

2005-09-09 Thread James A Stimson
OK, time for me to fess up: 7-course descant (Fletcher) 6-course treble (Nurse) 6-course tenor vihuela (Mateus) 8-course tenor (Fletcher) 6-course baritone in E (Barber) 10-course bass (Schreiner) 13-course baroque (Cepelak) 14-course chitarrone (Schreiner) 5-course gittern (Stevens) 5-course

[LUTE] Re: ownership

2005-09-08 Thread lautenist
The one cat surely as living reserve if a string unexpectedly breaks? :-) Thomas I've heard that with cats, but then it only takes one to own you. I have three (lutes that is, only one cat), two eight c. and one six, and a vihuela. Craig To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] Re: ownership

2005-09-08 Thread bill kilpatrick
the trouble with smaller instruments is that you can stick any number of them in the closet. someone on the mandolion site said recently that a collection of 400 instruments in not unheard of ... d-i-v-o-r-c-e - bill --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The one cat surely as living reserve if a

[LUTE] Re: ownership

2005-09-08 Thread Craig Allen
Thomas wrote: The one cat surely as living reserve if a string unexpectedly breaks? Shhh, don't tell him. He thinks he's a pet. ;) Craig ___ $0 Web Hosting with up to 200MB web space, 1000 MB Transfer 10 Personalized POP and Web E-mail

[LUTE] Re: ownership

2005-09-07 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
I suppose it depends upon what one counts as lute: vihuela, mandolino, early Neapolitan mandolins, etc? To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: ownership

2005-09-07 Thread corun
Steffen wrote: just counted my lutes come to think of (assuming I'm allowed to do that) the old Chinese folk, who walk around - with lifted index, telling each other: if you own more than seven lutes, the lutes own you, ..well. - never mind! I've heard that with cats, but then it only takes one