[LUTE] Re: Toyota Theorbo for rent, low mileage

2009-02-21 Thread demery
the size of car boots. well, if one strips out the uneeded seats, A toyota echo sedan can take a modest amount of lumber 3m long with the 'boot' closed; should have no trouble with most long-necked beasties. -- Dana Emery To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] Re: Toyota Theorbo for rent, low mileage

2009-02-20 Thread Lex van Sante
The breaking point of treble strings is easily determined by just crancking them up to the point where the increase in pitch becomes very steep as shown by Mimmi Peruffo. There is a very interresting article on the stringing of lutes to be read and/or downloaded from his website at

[LUTE] Re: Toyota Theorbo for rent, low mileage

2009-02-20 Thread Daniel F Heiman
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:59:30 +0100 Mark Wheeler l...@pantagruel.de writes: snip It seems that the 2 main factors for the trend of toy theorbos (more a definition of usage than size) and single strung archlutes are the availability of modern string materials and the size of car boots.

[LUTE] Re: Toyota Theorbo for rent, low mileage

2009-02-19 Thread Mark Wheeler
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: howard posner [mailto:howardpos...@ca.rr.com] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 19. Februar 2009 22:52 An: Lute Net Betreff: [LUTE] Re: Toyota Theorbo for rent, low mileage On Feb 19, 2009, at 11:05 AM, Stewart McCoy wrote: Does some historical source say both

[LUTE] Re: Toyota Theorbo for rent, low mileage

2009-02-19 Thread Mark Wheeler
: Donnerstag, 19. Februar 2009 22:52 An: Lute Net Betreff: [LUTE] Re: Toyota Theorbo for rent, low mileage On Feb 19, 2009, at 11:05 AM, Stewart McCoy wrote: Does some historical source say both highest pitch possible and thinnest useable string in discussing theorbos? And if so

[LUTE] Re: Toyota Theorbo for rent, low mileage

2009-02-19 Thread chriswilke
? Chris --- On Thu, 2/19/09, Mark Wheeler l...@pantagruel.de wrote: From: Mark Wheeler l...@pantagruel.de Subject: [LUTE] Re: Toyota Theorbo for rent, low mileage To: 'howard posner' howardpos...@ca.rr.com, 'Lute Net' lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009, 5:59 PM Sorry All

[LUTE] Re: Toyota Theorbo for rent, low mileage

2009-02-19 Thread howard posner
On Feb 19, 2009, at 2:59 PM, Mark Wheeler wrote: I accidentally hit the send button before I got round to actually writing anything in the last post... I thought you were just being extremely concise. As far as cranking the string up, there are historical accounts of this Robinson