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From: Stuart Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, November 29, 2007 7:43 pm
Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: ] Re: Preston tuner history
> > OK, so this seems to
> only
> > apply to the EG/cistre 'breed' of instruments (just a
> metaphor,
> > Eugene)...
Indeed.
Euge
Gone to the wrong list again!!
Alexander Batov wrote:
Stuart, I have very little knowledge in the history of EG (Philip
Coggin's article in EM, 1987 is all that I've read so far) and how it
all spread around, either from England to France or vice versa.
Alexander, there is no vice versa. The
Alexander Batov wrote:
Stuart, I have very little knowledge in the history of EG (Philip
Coggin's article in EM, 1987 is all that I've read so far) and how it
all spread around, either from England to France or vice versa.
Alexander, there is no vice versa. The French took up (improved,
refi
Alexander Batov wrote:
There is even more to the story. I came across a number of French cistres
(some with seven-courses) which had watch key tuners without Preston
mark on
them. Were they copied after Preston's, smuggled out of England and
rebranded ...? I very much doubt it.
Apart from o
i've got names for all my instruments. up till now,
all of them were private and none of them could have
been even remotely considered as irreligious.
a sharia court in the sudan has just sentenced a
perfectly respectful english lady of a certain age to
15 days in jail and deportation because s
John Cousens always said it was from the use of watch keys - he lent me some
when stringing a Preston guittar and they fitted perfectly. My supposition
would therefore be that the same people who made watch mechanisms in 18thC
London (centre of the industry)made these tuners to P's specifica
