Re: really bad deals and reentrant tuning

2004-06-08 Thread Alain Veylit
Alright, ooopsie, the Cultural bureau is a hoax... I had to go all the way to the Job opportunities page to figure it out for sure... Who knows: the beautiful song in the second link might be a fake too. Have the Sauceks taken over the whole WEB? Alain At 05:48 PM 6/8/04, Alain Veylit wrote: >

Re: really bad deals and reentrant tuning

2004-06-08 Thread Alain Veylit
Howard, all, Serious and sincere apologies for getting the giggles on that tuning thing and for all the bad jokes - The Ashcroft references come from a WEB page I read recently detailing some comments he made regarding Classical music in general and opera in particular: Ashcroft seems to conside

Re: really bad deals and reentrant tuning

2004-06-08 Thread Howard Posner
Alain Veylit wrote: > Is a "fifth" really a unit > of measure for whisky? And any other liquor, including wine. 750 ml is close enough to a fifth of a gallon not to worry about the difference. I don't get the Ashcroft jokes, BTW.

Re: really bad deals and reentrant tuning

2004-06-08 Thread bill
don't worry...this will all blow over soon. the important thing is to stay put, sit tight and don't leave your shelters. On Martedì, giu 8, 2004, at 22:33 Europe/Rome, lutesmith wrote: > >> >> --Tuned in fourths: when you only bother to tune every fourth string >> --Tuned in fifths: no one is l

Re: really bad deals and reentrant tuning

2004-06-08 Thread Thomas Schall
Am Die, 2004-06-08 um 22.33 schrieb lutesmith: > Lutes are never tuned in seconds because it usually takes much longer than > that. > Wrong! Ask Stefan how (if ever) I tune my 10-course. It's *very* fast (I told him I would have bought it tuned and it would stay in tune since then. All a matte

Re: really bad deals and reentrant tuning

2004-06-08 Thread lutesmith
> >--Tuned in fourths: when you only bother to tune every fourth string >--Tuned in fifths: no one is lazy enough in the lute world to do it, but >widely in use in the violin family of instruments Lutes are never tuned in seconds because it usually takes much longer than that. Sean

RE: really bad deals and reentrant tuning

2004-06-08 Thread Alain Veylit
r a nigerian single stringed >lute . It sounds a bit like the Theramin! >Charles > >-Original Message- >From: Alain Veylit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: 08 June 2004 17:43 >To: bill; Jon Murphy >Cc: James A Stimson; lute society >Subject: Re: really bad deals an

Re: really bad deals and reentrant tuning

2004-06-08 Thread Alain Veylit
I was recently advised to prefer diapasons to bourbons for my lute's bass courses - unfortunately, old habits die hard... Is a "fifth" really a unit of measure for whisky? Alain

Re: really bad deals and reentrant tuning

2004-06-08 Thread "Joachim Lüdtke"
Dear Alain, that's wonderful! You saved my evening after a particular hard day. I'm going to try to tune my lute now ... Cheers, Joachim "Alain Veylit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > >>On Martedì, giu 8, 2004, at 07:10 Europe/Rome, Jon Murphy wrote: >> >> > What is "re-entrant tuning". > >--I t

Re: really bad deals and reentrant tuning

2004-06-08 Thread timothy motz
>Oh, I thought that tuning in fifths involved Jack Daniels. It never really sounded right, but after most of a fifth, I didn't care. Tim > > > Original Message >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: really bad deals

RE: really bad deals and reentrant tuning

2004-06-08 Thread Charles Browne
bad deals and reentrant tuning >On Martedì, giu 8, 2004, at 07:10 Europe/Rome, Jon Murphy wrote: > > > What is "re-entrant tuning". --I thought re-entrant tuning was when you stop the other guys from playing so you get a second chance to tune. --In a solo setting, re-entran

Re: really bad deals and reentrant tuning

2004-06-08 Thread Alain Veylit
>On Martedì, giu 8, 2004, at 07:10 Europe/Rome, Jon Murphy wrote: > > > What is "re-entrant tuning". --I thought re-entrant tuning was when you stop the other guys from playing so you get a second chance to tune. --In a solo setting, re-entrant tuning means to stop mid-way through a piece to ad

Re: really bad deals and reentrant tuning

2004-06-08 Thread bill
On Martedì, giu 8, 2004, at 07:10 Europe/Rome, Jon Murphy wrote: > What is "re-entrant tuning". reentrant tuning is when the strings you would normally expect to be lower are actually higher in pitch - nearer to the 1st string than the last. in other words the strings d

Re: really bad deals and reentrant tuning

2004-06-07 Thread Jon Murphy
What is "re-entrant tuning". In computer programming it is a form such that a subroutine can be used again and again during a system routine without distrurbing the basic program. I'll not get into the details, but it was a question when we used to program in machine language and real time. Best,

Re: really bad deals and reentrant tuning

2004-06-07 Thread bill
rude by trained musicians. if documentation doesn't exist to support the existence of reentrant tuning or alternative tunings in the renaissance and baroque periods, then how did what eventually became a ukulele get its reentrant tuning and how did the vihuela that eventually became a chara

Re: reentrant tuning

2004-06-07 Thread lutesmith
At 07:56 AM 6/7/04, you wrote: > Actually I meant what I said. Without belaboring the point, whether you > think of the tuning of 16c 4 cs guitar tunings (g,c,e,a or a,c,e,a) as > reentrant or not depends on if you think of the bourdon as the primary or > secondary string. Craig, Can you cit

Re: reentrant tuning

2004-06-07 Thread Craig Robert Pierpont
Actually I meant what I said. Without belaboring the point, whether you think of the tuning of 16c 4 cs guitar tunings (g,c,e,a or a,c,e,a) as reentrant or not depends on if you think of the bourdon as the primary or secondary string. Assuming that you are using a one at all. (The practice of

Re: reentrant tuning

2004-06-06 Thread Gary Digman
To: lute society Subject: Re: reentrant tuning > > > > At 03:59 PM 6/6/04, Craig Robert Pierpont wrote: > > I know that reentrant tuning is common for 16c guitars > > Hmmm, I haven't seen any evidence of reentrant tunings in ren. gu

Re: reentrant tuning

2004-06-06 Thread lutesmith
At 03:59 PM 6/6/04, Craig Robert Pierpont wrote: > I know that reentrant tuning is common for 16c guitars Hmmm, I haven't seen any evidence of reentrant tunings in ren. guitars. They are standardly tuned to the same intervals as the inner 4 courses of the 6-c lute w/ the top guita

Re: reentrant tuning

2004-06-06 Thread Craig Robert Pierpont
I know that reentrant tuning is common for 16c guitars and citterns. Sometimes it is somewhat camoflaged by the use of a bourdon which makes the course both lower and higher than the next course. Craig Craig R. Pierpont Another Era Lutherie www.anotherera.com bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: really bad deals and reentrant tuning

2004-06-06 Thread James A Stimson
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really bad deals and reentrant tuning

2004-06-06 Thread bill
ast but the majority of viruses appear to be aimed at microsoft users. i wouldn't blame wayne for anything - he's got a place in heaven. re: reentrant tuning - i read recently that reentrant tuning is probably more authentic for the playing of very early music, particularly rustic.