Le 15 oct. 07 à 16:29, howard posner a écrit :
On Oct 15, 2007, at 12:42 AM, Anthony Hind wrote:
But if you feel Lawyers take too much teasing, then just think of
us phoneticians,
I'm afraid no one ever does.
Sorry though if you feel your trade is too often a butt of jokes. I
can understan
On Oct 15, 2007, at 12:42 AM, Anthony Hind wrote:
> But if you feel Lawyers take too much teasing, then just think of
> us phoneticians,
I'm afraid no one ever does.
> Sorry though if you feel your trade is too often a butt of jokes. I
> can understand that could be somewhat tiresome.
I hav
Le 14 oct. 07 =E0 02:08, howard posner a ecrit :
>
> On Oct 13, 2007, at 3:17 PM, Anthony Hind wrote:
>
>>
>> but please don't take my remarks too seriously,
>
> No danger of that, though I'll point out there was enough in your
> little paragraph to fail an exam in both torts and civil procedur
On Sat, Oct 13, 2007, Anthony Hind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Howard, you are thinking the law students are expecting the lute
> player to lose; but if you can prove you couldn't possibly hear the
> lute, even if you're in the same room with it (so long as the library
> walls are lined with
>But was your lute amplified? No mi Lud.
>Did it have carbon strings?, No mi Lud
Getting into the P.D.Q. BACH, "Concerto for bagpipes and lute"
territory here? One relishes the thought of those law students being
serenaded by a regiment of Scotland's finest. For true sonic assault,
(eschewing
But was your lute amplified? No mi Lud.
Did it have carbon strings?, No mi Lud
Ah, I see it was a mute, not a lute
Case closed in favour of the Mutists
Best regards
Anthony
LLB and JD failed
Le 14 oct. 07 =E0 02:08, howard posner a ecrit :
>
> On Oct 13, 2007, at 3:17 PM, Anthony Hind wrote:
>
ve when used
in the right circumstances.
Guy
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Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 12:13 PM
To: Daniel Winheld; lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: [LUTE] Re: longbows & lutes
>>>NB, I have no interest in f
On Oct 13, 2007, at 3:17 PM, Anthony Hind wrote:
> Howard, you are thinking the law students are expecting the lute
> player to lose; but if you can prove you couldn't possibly hear the
> lute, even if you're in the same room with it (so long as the
> library walls are lined with books), it
Dana
Do you use synthetics, or gut on your longbow?
"Historically, bowstrings have been made from sinew, twisted rawhide,
gut, hemp, flax, or silk. Today, strings for wooden longbows are
often made of linen thread. Compound bows may be strung with steel
wire. Bowstrings for popular r
Howard, you are thinking the law students are expecting the lute
player to lose; but if you can prove you couldn't possibly hear the
lute, even if you're in the same room with it (so long as the library
walls are lined with books), it doesn"t matter whether you started
all the rumpus, you h
went through almost any thing and every thing that was hit,
including the armored Knight.
VW
I am having a bit of trouble trying to commiserate with the latter.
He was probably the one employing a lute player, so be kind. A bit
like you and Martha Stewart, I suppose...
I have worked on a numbe
On Oct 13, 2007, at 10:38 AM, Roman Turovsky wrote:
>> went through almost any thing and every thing that was hit,
>> including the armored Knight.
>> VW
> I am having a bit of trouble trying to commiserate with the latter.
He was probably the one employing a lute player, so be kind. A bit
l
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To: "Anthony Hind" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc:
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 7:24 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: longbows, lutes, Law suits, and Duelling
Hello Anthony,
The USA is a lawsuit happy country. From your reference to the French
universities, perhaps France is also a l
Roman; you are correct but there is one caveat, it takes a lifetime of
practice and training to become a competent archer and a couple of weeks
to learn to shoot an harquebus, if you don't blow your own head off first.
That one fact caused the doom of the military archer. You could line up
wav
On Oct 13, 2007, at 1:20 AM, Anthony Hind wrote:
> Those law students were probably learning how to drum up conflicts
> out of nothing, so someone would file a law suit, and they could
> offer their services. That is what in French universities, they
> call "travaux praitiques." They would
Hello Anthony,
The USA is a lawsuit happy country. From your reference to the French
universities, perhaps France is also a lawsuit happy country. A
possible conclusion would be that the more civilized a country is, the
more lawsuit happy a country is.
If this is conclusion is true, then perhap
On Oct 13, 2007, at 5:24 AM, vance wood wrote:
> Roman; you are correct but there is one caveat, it takes a lifetime
> of practice and training to become a competent archer and a couple
> of weeks to learn to shoot an harquebus, if you don't blow your own
> head off first. That one fact cau
list"
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 6:05 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: longbows & lutes
Possibly. However a sense of humer is not really useful in jurisprudence.
It can be as this judge shows.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NTcyN2UzMDE3NGNhNGFlZjU0YjMzOWE1YzkxMjk0NWE=
Too b
Louis
Those law students were probably learning how to drum up
conflicts out of nothing, so someone would file a law suit, and they
could offer their services. That is what in French universities, they
call "travaux praitiques." They would have got very good marks for
trying …
Antho
Hi honey I'm home time for some answers-
>Yep. Archery-derived lutestring hooking would produce deliciously funky sound.
"Hooking" of lute strings would have to be learned independently of
archery. At one's very first archery lesson it becomes manifest that
the shot cannot come off unless the d
How about all thumbs?
ed
At 08:47 AM 10/12/2007 -0700, Craig Allen wrote:
>Make that three. And while I don't shoot a traditional English longbow I
>do shoot a traditional Magyar style horse bow. I also recently picked up a
>booklet on the science of using a thumb ring. Hmmm, now should I shoot
Possibly. However a sense of humer is not really useful in jurisprudence.
It can be as this judge shows.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NTcyN2UzMDE3NGNhNGFlZjU0YjMzOWE1YzkxMjk0NWE=
Too bad. The arquebus was supremely effective against archers.
RT
Actually not so much. Archers cou
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Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 11:14 AM
To: Lute List
Subject: [LUTE] Re: longbows & lutes
Roman wrote:
Possibly. However a sense of humer is not really useful in jurisprudence.
It can be as this judge shows.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NTcyN2UzMDE3NGNhNGFlZ
Guy wrote:
>
>That makes at least two of us, although I confess to only limited experience
>with a longbow. At least I don't use those silly contraptions with cables
>and pulleys that pass for bows these days...
Make that three. And while I don't shoot a traditional English longbow I do
shoot a t
urate compared to what a skilled bowman could manage because they were
smooth bores; rifling hadn't been invented yet.
Guy
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From: Craig Allen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 11:14 AM
To: Lute List
Subject: [LUTE] Re: longbows & lute
Roman wrote:
>
>Possibly. However a sense of humer is not really useful in jurisprudence.
It can be as this judge shows.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NTcyN2UzMDE3NGNhNGFlZjU0YjMzOWE1YzkxMjk0NWE=
>Too bad. The arquebus was supremely effective against archers.
>RT
Actually not so much
On Oct 12, 2007, at 10:08 AM, Roman Turovsky wrote:
> Possibly. However a sense of humer is not really useful in
> jurisprudence.
You'd be surprised. We're a pretty quippy lot, and the ones who
aren't are often unintentionally funny.
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A shame that Henry and Liz were not privy to your wisdom. The great
target scores of English SPORTING archery, set by A. Horace Ford in
the 1850's -unmatched until the 20th century- were accomplished after
the "advent, flowering, and hegemony" of the lute. Are you saying
that Howard Posner, Ben C
Anthony wrote:
>
>When I saw Jacob Heringman play, I couldn't help seeing him as an an
>archer: both lower left arm and lower right arm and the lute parallel
>to the ground. His left hand was near the rose, but when he drew it
>back towards the bridge, it seemed cranked back progressively by
When I saw Jacob Heringman play, I couldn't help seeing him as an an
archer: both lower left arm and lower right arm and the lute parallel
to the ground. His left hand was near the rose, but when he drew it
back towards the bridge, it seemed cranked back progressively by a
mechanism entirel
tober 12, 2007 8:32 AM
To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: [LUTE] Re: longbows & lutes
Obviously a situation calling for using the mighty Yew tree in its
military form. Shakespeare, of course, understood the need for
preparing the venue before a concert could proceed- "First, we kill
a
A shame that Henry and Liz were not privy to your wisdom. The great
target scores of English SPORTING archery, set by A. Horace Ford in
the 1850's -unmatched until the 20th century- were accomplished after
the "advent, flowering, and hegemony" of the lute. Are you saying
that Howard Posner, Be
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From: "Roman Turovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Daniel Winheld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: longbows & lutes
Obviously a situation calling for using the mighty Yew tr
I'm both an archer (very amateur) and a lute player.
>
> As the only archer amongst all the lute players (so far as I know- as
> well as the only lutenist amongst the archers) I can't recommend the
> study of archery too strongly- what a great balance of culturally &
> physically complementary dis
Obviously a situation calling for using the mighty Yew tree in its
military form. Shakespeare, of course, understood the need for
preparing the venue before a concert could proceed- "First, we kill
all the lawyers..."
This thoughtless exhortation would include among intended victims Howard
Posne
Obviously a situation calling for using the mighty Yew tree in its
military form. Shakespeare, of course, understood the need for
preparing the venue before a concert could proceed- "First, we kill
all the lawyers..." and the longbow, even more than other bows, is a
silent weapon well suited f
While preparing for a concert on ren lute years ago at Emory University, in
the Law School building, I stepped out into the hallway to practice a few
quiet licks while the consort practiced another piece I didn't play in. This
was at 8pm. The hallway was cavernous and made a nice echo. Within a min
Dear Martin and all
I am afraid with this topic, I unleashed this necessary reflection
on war and weaponry. You are quite right, Martin, to bring us back to
the reality that when bows were turned into lutes, "swords were only
tunrned into ploughshares" because a better weapon had become
Dear Martin and Ron
How about this natural spring question, and the differing resonant
properties of heartwood and sapwood? Do you think, Martin, that
heartwood/sapwood Yew has a different sound from plain Yew?
Stephen Gottlieb mentions how well Yew goes with gut. Do you have the
sam
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