Re: looking for a lutar - forwarded

2003-10-26 Thread Jon Murphy
and piano-forte are different, but the keyboard is very simila$4 r - Original Message - From: Timothy Kuntz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: David Rastall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 11:12 AM Subject: Re: looking for a lutar - forwarded Hi, Jon said

Re: looking for a lutar - forwarded

2003-10-12 Thread Jon Murphy
And SimonShuster tap dancing Scarborough Book Fair RT An arrow in my heart, Roman, the old Ionic mode version was a fine song, the new Doric version by Simon and Garfunkle is a pretty song, but misses the meaning of the lyric. Were I a publisher I'd promote my version using the full text with

Re: looking for a lutar - forwarded

2003-10-11 Thread Vance Wood
dominant musical instrument of the period, out side the human voice. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 12:39 PM Subject: Re: looking for a lutar - forwarded Jon wrote: I seem to have missed something, my

Re: looking for a lutar - forwarded

2003-10-11 Thread Timothy Kuntz
Hi, Jon said: I totally disagree with your premise. The form of the instrument may drive the way it is played, but the music drives the player. And David Rastall replied: I'm sorry to sound so obtuse, Jon, but I'm not aware of operating on any one particular premise. I've noticed

RE: looking for a lutar - forwarded

2003-10-11 Thread Stuart LeBlanc
No you fool, he is obviously referring to the famous concert of Chet Perkins, bastard child of Chet Atkins and Carl Perkins. In addition to Mark Knopf on guitar, the sidemen included W.W. Norton on bass, Random House on drums and Ed. Orpheé on harp. Bluegrass I know well, and have a TV

Re: looking for a lutar - forwarded

2003-10-11 Thread David Rastall
On Saturday, October 11, 2003, at 11:58 AM, Stuart LeBlanc wrote: No you fool, he is obviously referring to the famous concert of Chet Perkins, bastard child of Chet Atkins and Carl Perkins. Gosh how stupid of me, I should have realized that. In addition to Mark Knopf on guitar, the

Re: looking for a lutar - forwarded

2003-10-11 Thread Jon Murphy
Rastall [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Jon Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Matanya Ophee [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 11:58 AM Subject: RE: looking for a lutar - forwarded No you fool, he is obviously referring to the famous concert of Chet Perkins, bastard child

RE: looking for a lutar - forwarded

2003-10-10 Thread Ron Fletcher
An Elizabethan lutarist? Eugene wrote: I also understand that the members of a modern Elizabethan reenactment group might not be inspired to take up a more proper lute out of sole interest in the lute, which may very well be misguided motivation (not to mention an expensive investment of both

Re: looking for a lutar - forwarded

2003-10-07 Thread corun
Gernot wrote: The term lutar is - at least as far as I know - used for a LUte-guiTAR, i.e. a six-course singlestrung lute, just like the Wandervogellaute. This may be what Rachel's looking for. These things sell at ebay quite cheaply. Search for lute. Yes, that's what she's looking for. I'm

Re: looking for a lutar - forwarded

2003-10-07 Thread Matanya Ophee
At 01:15 PM 10/7/2003 -0400, David Rastall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To my mind it's just a guitar with a lute-like body and pegboard. So it was in vogue for a while in 19th-century Germany, it probably doesn't hold much interest for those who are interested in the renaissance or Baroque lute.

Re: looking for a lutar - forwarded

2003-10-07 Thread Eugene Braig
Well, my apologies to all. My statement largely was meant to be tongue in cheek, and I intended no slight to the early Jugendbewegung movement or Wandervögel groups. After all, they constituted the earliest seed of what has flowered into one of the most active camps of modern art music for

Re: looking for a lutar - forwarded

2003-10-07 Thread Thomas Schall
. A modern guitar in a lute-like shape may be just the tool for this job. which would be a liuto forte but these are rather expensive (I think the cheapest will cost around 6000 $) (well-done instruments without repertoire but of high quality of craftsmanship - what a loss of material and time

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2003-10-07 Thread Manolo Laguillo
Matanya Ophee wrote: ..past century, the Vogelwand movement. There were literally hundreds of... it was Wandervogel (wandering birds), actually... ;-) Vogelwand = bird's wall Manolo Laguillo Barcelona --

Re: looking for a lutar - forwarded

2003-10-07 Thread David Rastall
On Tuesday, October 7, 2003, at 06:43 PM, Eugene Braig wrote: ...There _were_ reams of shoddily constructed guitar lutes built to target a fickle crowd of amateurs; such is the case with any popular instrument (e.g., consider the modern guitar or the mandolin in the early 1900s). It's