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Do any of you research types have or know where I might find the Latin text of Gerald of Wales (Giraldus Cambrensis) blurb on 12th century Irish and Scottish...
There's a selection online at http://www.standingstones.com/giraldus.html, and their quotation comes from the 1954 edition of the New Oxford History of Music,...
Pat, thanks ever so much. But arrgghhh the quote stops just exactly at the sentence I was looking for! No luck, have I. In the part about Bb sounding so...
A free String Analysis Spreadsheet is available for downloading at MusicMakers, www.musikit.com, menu "Library", "String Analysis" for Steel and Bronze...
My wife, Laurie Nielsen, at Markwood Heavenly Strings, also supplies a free form for computer string analysis via email from her website. She then will do the...
Hi: Thanks for making this wire spreadsheet. I have not run many wires with it so far , but it seems to be giving about the same answers as running the numbers...
Daniel Where can I find a chart or additional information on alloy vs strength for various gold and silver alloys? I have been looking abd have not found...
Thanks for your offer of more wire data. The tensile strength came from Joseph Jourdain's articles. It seems we have to compromise between one simple number...
I took advantage of this service a few years ago. Laurie ran an analysis and helped me adjust the stringing of my old Caswell Bard, so the strings wouldn't...
Hi All. I'm posting this for a friend who's not on the list, so please respond to the contact info provided below, not to me: Kathy Wilmering is offering a...
... from ... have ... you ... Hi: I don't have anything on wrap material . The experiments we have done were directed toward alloys in use from 800 A.D. to...
... strength for various gold and silver alloys? I have been looking abd have not found anything useful so far. ... Most of that type of information is in old...
Daniel I have purchased a stack of older metal and goldsmithing books and have been unable to find what I want. What I want is data regarding alloy vs...
... have been unable to find what I want. ... drawing)..... of gold/silver/copper alloys, for gold...... and silver/copper/tin alloys for silver.... I can then...
Daniel Thanks, actually I expect that that wll help a great deal. I didn't expect that it would be laid out simply. The article you have written would be very...
Sorry to take so long on this. The 1991 edition of New Oxford is, as I suspected, no help at all. The 1954 edition has a long passage on harmony singing...
I knew I had it somewhere. Pray pardon any typos; my spell checker keeps trying to turn these into English words. I can't seem to convince it that "semper"...
Here's a free downloadable tuner I saw at the Historical Harps list: http://www.wintemper.com Has anyone tried it and how useful is it? Peter Wilson...
wikipedia,the free online encyclopedia has information on the history of the harp at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harp jonathan st.thomas ... Be a better...
... Very excellent, Pat! Many thanks to those who looked into this. So, old Giraldus, writing a century or so before our earliest extant harp examples says...
... passage you've cited i'm under the impression that what giraldus is describing is the actual sensation of one hearing the wire harp- Perhaps, but the rest...
... this is part of something I've been wondering about for ages now: They tune their harps in Bb, says my English edition. SO, exposing my ignorance - I...
All right, my Latin is all classical and more than 25 years rusty, but - I would also be inclined to translate "tinnitus" as "ringing" rather than "tinkling."...
Or, alternatively, the obtuso can mean "blunted." As in damped???? Pat ... rather ... out ... translations ... had ... this. ... to ... to. ... the ... that...
... rather ... Very good, Pat, and of course we are all just guessing at what was in his mind when he wrote that. It is, of course, correct that "tinnio"...
I don't know. I still think the idea of "blunted" or "dulled" may be relevant here, as in deliberately muffled rather than freely ringing. (Yes, it's all...
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