William Brohinsky wrote:
I have spent an enjoyable week researching the chekker. At least it
was more enjoyable than just sitting around healing.
Anyway, I was able to acquire some of the papers associated with the
Christopher Page article and the Early Music article itself:
"The Myth of the Ch
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From: "William Brohinsky"
To: "Stuart Walsh"
Cc: "lute Net"
Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 4:26 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: plucked (and plonked) trio
I have spent an enjoyable week researching the chekker. At least it
was more enjoyable than j
I have spent an enjoyable week researching the chekker. At least it
was more enjoyable than just sitting around healing.
Anyway, I was able to acquire some of the papers associated with the
Christopher Page article and the Early Music article itself:
"The Myth of the Chekker", Christopher Page, E
William Brohinsky wrote:
My guess is that the lowest voice is being played on a clavichord.
Either that, or some kind of bizarre hurdy-gurdy which plucks the
notes instead of bowing them?
ray
I emailed Marc Lewon. He says it's a chekker ("a kind of claviciterium
with metal strings"). Someb
> So there are two bridges, but no under-and-over stuff (as on
> later dulcimers).
if one bridge each side, then each set of strings are likely to be sloped
relative to the other, so they look like an X viewed from the side; this
allows the player a choice, play left, or play right. Some players
Daniel F Heiman wrote:
Some nice photos from the LSA Lute Festival concert are here
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~lsa/old/Cleveland2006/CYoungConcert.html
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~lsa/old/Cleveland2006/CYoungConcertPhotos.ht
ml
Unfortunately I have been unable to get Crawford to choose some o
David Tayler wrote:
There are some people who play the plucky version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9APMU2jXJE
But that is a later style.
Still, it is an original :)
d
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9APMU2jXJE
Thanks. I've never seen that before. That psalterio looks like a
dulcimer, not a
Some nice photos from the LSA Lute Festival concert are here
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~lsa/old/Cleveland2006/CYoungConcert.html
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~lsa/old/Cleveland2006/CYoungConcertPhotos.ht
ml
Unfortunately I have been unable to get Crawford to choose some of the
audio clips so I ca
There are some people who play the plucky version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9APMU2jXJE
But that is a later style.
Still, it is an original :)
d
At 05:52 PM 10/21/2009, you wrote:
Hi Stuart,
Margit actually flew out to the LSA seminar in Ohio a few years ago to
play duos with Crawford. Y
Hi Stuart,
Margit actually flew out to the LSA seminar in Ohio a few years ago to
play duos with Crawford. Yes, it's in the hammered dulcimer family,
yep, sure sounds great and believable in that context and, oh yeah, is
she ever in control!
It looks like a pretty versatile instrument an
There are several cases of untexted chansons in
the musicological literarure described as "must
be instrumental", but usually the text turns up.
Not to mention the fact that they sang these
pieces on hexachord syllables, oddly enough.
You are correct that the lastest round of
historical dulc
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