Greeting Bach Pluckers! What are you all playing? I have been hard at work playing the c minor prelude and the Fuga in g moll on my new 14 course theorbo...
michael stitt
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Feb 7, 2000 4:47 am
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Thanks Johan, I will certainly look this one up. Thanks. Michael Stitt ... ===== Michael Stitt Australien Lautenspieler ...
michael stitt
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Feb 8, 2000 11:12 pm
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Dear Bach Pluckers, I would like to welcome Juan Carlos Ayala Ruiz, who just recently joined the mailing list. Juan is a very interesting Spanish fellow who...
michael stitt
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Feb 11, 2000 12:41 am
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I wonder if Pluckers might tell us who they are and where they come from? Why do you play Bach on your instrument? Come on, tell us about yourselves! ===== ...
michael stitt
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Feb 11, 2000 12:44 am
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OK, Michael, Greetings, fellow Bach lovers, guitarists and lutenists: I'm Mike Proctor, an electronics engineer, living in Bondi, Sydney, Australia. I'm a very...
Michael Proctor
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Feb 11, 2000 12:57 am
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Dave Tuttle Colorado, USA On Guitar I love the sound of Bach on my Ramirez. I am an intermediate who often gets in over his head ;)...
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Feb 11, 2000 3:08 am
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Since you asked: I'm Derek Day, a guitarist currently in the Buffalo, NY area. Including my students at the Buffalo Academy of the Sacred Heart (a private...
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Feb 10, 2000 10:25 pm
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Foxlute@...
Feb 11, 2000 10:32 am
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Ok Michael. This is me. My name is David Fox, I live in Brentwood, Essex in the UK. and I am 45 years old. I am an accountant by profession involved in...
Foxlute@...
Feb 11, 2000 10:50 am
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Wow David, with so many lutes AND guitar(s), it sounds like you have more then your hands full. Just on the matter of the Chaconne, I must say that I love the...
michael stitt
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Feb 11, 2000 11:48 am
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Thanks for this Johan, this sounds worth acquiring. ... ===== Michael Stitt Australien Lautenspieler http://bachplucked.com/lutenist/oz1.htm Goldbergs on...
michael stitt
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Feb 11, 2000 11:52 am
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Hi to all! I am an ex-physician almost accidentally turned businessman and with a passion for music. I have been playing the harpsichord for several years, so...
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Feb 11, 2000 11:50 am
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Dear Luis, If I did not play lute I would surely play clavichord! It is an exquisite instrument. It may be closer to the cembalo family, but in some ways its...
michael stitt
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Feb 11, 2000 12:00 pm
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Dear Michael, I have thought about it but I will need a friendlier banker than mine; one who, in addition to financing the lute-harpsichord will provide funda...
luis.villalba@...
Feb 11, 2000 12:05 pm
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Well, My name is Richard Schuchman and I live in Orlando, Florida. I'm a graphic artist by trade. The guitar is my passion, though, and I dearly wish someday I...
Maryann Schuchman
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Feb 11, 2000 1:13 pm
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Thanks Michael. Sorry about my blank e-mail. I pressed the wrong button on my laptop! I shall certainly be asking some more questions about that Chaconne. I've...
Foxlute@...
Feb 11, 2000 2:12 pm
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Howdy. I'm Ben Cohen, an attorney in Denver, Colorado USA. My parents started me on piano at an early age. When I took up guitar in high school I just...
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Feb 11, 2000 4:46 pm
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Hello all, I am Juan Carlos Ayala and live in the city of Malaga, in the Spanish region of Andalucia. I am 33 years old and live with my cat "Misha". I became...
Juan Carlos Ayala Ruiz
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Feb 12, 2000 10:40 am
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Hi, My name is Tony Fairbridge. I'm aged 60 and have been playing classical guitar for 20 years, with more enthusiasm than skill. My background has been mostly...
Tony Fairbridge
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Feb 12, 2000 11:04 am
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... I do not play the lute, although ... Dear Tony, Don't feel you are at any disadvantage not playing Bach on lute. Playing the Baroque lute is very heavy ...
michael stitt
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Feb 12, 2000 7:13 pm
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I also play guitar without nails. My nails are very soft, and although I have tried several methods of hardening them none has proved satisfactory. I now...
Tony Fairbridge
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Feb 13, 2000 12:05 am
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Hi Tony, My mother swears by Knox Gelatin Capsules daily. I think her nails are so strong she could use them as screwdrivers if she had to..... Deanna...
Deanna Nim & Brooks C...
sabaka@...
Feb 13, 2000 12:12 am
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... "And twenty years playing it out of tune." Thats what my guitar teacher told me. Oh well :) shuz...
Shuzo Yoshihara
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Feb 13, 2000 3:08 am
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Actually Tony, it was Mattheson who made such a comment. The reality is another thing. If the pegs and peg holes have been well constructed, the instrument...
michael stitt
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Feb 13, 2000 3:29 am
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Thanks, Deanna. Tried it, but it wasn't a success. When I was about 7 or 8 I trapped the fingers of my right hand in a door. The nail follicles were damaged,...
Tony Fairbridge
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Feb 13, 2000 1:40 pm
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Dear Luis and others, I wonder how many of you are conscious of the Bach recordings and the respect the artist has for rest signs in the WTC and other works....
michael stitt
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Feb 19, 2000 11:56 am
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Welcome Dan S. What Bach do you play? ===== Michael Stitt Australischer Lautenspieler http://bachplucked.com/lutenist/oz1.htm Goldbergs on Baroque lute 2000 ...
michael stitt
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Feb 29, 2000 12:19 am
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HI Michael, Thanks for the greeting. I'm a low-intermediate classical guitar player and am working my way through the basic repertoire of easier Bach pieces...
Stone, Dan
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Mar 6, 2000 8:38 pm
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Gret Dan. If you ever feel like discussing aspects relating to the music or classical guitar technique, fire away. Cheers. Michael Stitt ... ...
michael stitt
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Mar 7, 2000 2:42 am
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I lost the post that brought up this subject, and so cannot cite it. Recent scholarship has developed a question about the exact purpose of the notation in the...
