Good lute builders tend to be well booked up with lutes to build, and
consequently reluctant to take repair work. Especially someone else's
instrument. Might this be a repair that could be dealt with by a violin or
guitar maker/repairman? Certainly more commonly found, and by showing her the
Where in the north east are you? Richard Fletcher is in NE PA, not far from
the "Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania". He advertises in the LSA Quarterly.
E-mail palu...@popaccts.quik.com.
Leonard Williams
On 11/19/10 3:15 PM, "Mark Mattioli" wrote:
> Thanks everyone for the strap info. It seems
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Jörg,
I was shipping a Canadian instrument from Canada to the US, so some of the
forms I needed were NAFTA forms, which are quite different and unique to
North American. FDA 287
Dear Graham,
dear all,
thank you very much for the caution.
You may probably be the one to help now ... ore somebody else?
I am just about to send a lute from Germany to San Francisco, and therefore I
needs lots of documents, such as you mentioned. There is one from the German
office to conf
Also see the story, quoted in David Munrow's book Instruments of the
Middle Ages and Renaissance, of Inigo Jones' theorbo being detained at
Dover on his return from Italy because the Customs officials feared
that it was "a Popish engine of destruction."
The more things change...
I had a similar issue - I ordered a new lute from Canada, and when is was
delivered to me in the U.S.A. I was billed $360 for import duty, even though
lutes are supposed to be duty free if made in Canada. It seems that there is a
NAFTA document which must be filled out by the maker. The maker d
Thank you for this story, Graham.
My guess is that the agents were looking for a CITES violation; that
is, the convention of international trade of endangered species
act. I have a lute which contains ivory and Brazillian rosewood, and
I would never consider attempting bringing it over a bord
Thanks for passing on your experiences, Graham. I guess that - like ivory -
certain woods are considered rare or endangered, and their use and transport is
being controlled. A nuisance for musical instrument players, but in the
overall scheme of things probably a good thing.
Ned
On Nov 1, 201
On 5/1/2007, "hera caius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thank you all,
> I'm not living in Transilvania (Roman), It doesn't exist...
> But I'm living in a place somehow hostile to early music which had not give
> anithing big in this area but we have a great lute player, a guy
> named
On Apr 27, 2007, at 5:37 PM, Josh Winters wrote:
> Is there a good site to look at for used lutes?
For basic info on buying a lute for the first time, lutes for sale
and lots of other cool lute-related stuff, explore Wayne Cripps's
Lute Page: www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute/lute.html. Also t
Also my thanks to Wayne and
Happy New Year to everybody!
Arto
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Yes, Happy New Year and thanks a lot, Wayne!
All the best,
Mathias
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> I agree most heartily!
> Charles
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I agree most heartily!
Charles
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I second (or third) Bob! Thank you Wayne and Happy New Year to you and your
family.
Sandy
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> Let the first of my long list if thank y
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