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[*] posted on 5-31-2009 at 07:13 AM
Medival Lute


Here some pictures of my medival lute built by Vincenzo Ciprian!
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[*] posted on 5-31-2009 at 07:18 AM
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[*] posted on 5-31-2009 at 07:19 AM
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[*] posted on 5-31-2009 at 07:20 AM
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[*] posted on 5-31-2009 at 09:43 AM


Nice
Where did you get it?
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[*] posted on 5-31-2009 at 09:48 AM


Wow... I've never seen something like this before, wonderful! I would love to hear it!
Are the frets movable? ...do you play 'early music' on this? it that music in 12tone equal temperament, or some mean-tone tuning, or Just intonation.... or?

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[*] posted on 5-31-2009 at 11:02 AM


The frets are movable so you can tone better especially if you play with flutes or viella (fidel i think)!
I play on it music beetween 1200-1300! But I'm using it also for a more mothern sound ....
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[*] posted on 5-31-2009 at 11:03 AM


The lute come from Assisi Italy (toscany)!
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[*] posted on 5-31-2009 at 11:18 AM


Quote: Originally posted by Nicola  
The frets are movable so you can tone better especially if you play with flutes or viella (fidel i think)!
I play on it music beetween 1200-1300! But I'm using it also for a more mothern sound ....


so this is before 12TET




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[*] posted on 5-31-2009 at 11:33 AM


HERE THE SOUND!

http://nicolanesta.it/audio/07_maria%20matrem.mp3
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[*] posted on 5-31-2009 at 12:03 PM


Bravo! Che bella!
...what a sweet sound! Is this an ancient composition? ...sounds very chordal, so it is probably not too ancient....? also a bit like nahawand.

Thanks so much!

I would like to see some clips of you band... do they exist?




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[*] posted on 5-31-2009 at 12:19 PM


The music is Maria Matrem from the Llibre Vermell de Montserrat XIV century!

You can see my medieval band here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3_-AsLZH3U
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[*] posted on 6-10-2009 at 05:17 PM


Nicola, Your mp3 recording is beautiful. Do you play with plectrum or fingerstyle on your medieval lute?.

http://www.vanedwards.co.uk/1.htm
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[*] posted on 6-10-2009 at 10:33 PM


Thanks very much!!!
I play with plectrum sometime using the free fingers!
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[*] posted on 6-10-2009 at 10:36 PM


Nice work on your website! Would it be possible to hear an mp3?
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[*] posted on 6-10-2009 at 10:55 PM


Quote: Originally posted by Nicola  
The music is Maria Matrem from the Llibre Vermell de Montserrat XIV century!

You can see my medieval band here:

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3_-AsLZH3U
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Wow, great music - - - is this Byzantine music??




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[*] posted on 6-11-2009 at 09:30 AM


Great stuff.

I thought I was making progress with my fretted oud.

Now I know how far there is to go.

Never mind. Less chat, more practice for me.
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[*] posted on 6-12-2009 at 06:30 AM


Nicola, Its not my website. Its David van Edwards an English luthier. I am interested in his medieval lutes but they are expensive!!!. I dont think he has sound files but I have played and heard his lutes. Very nice sound. Do you have contact details for Vincenzo Ciprian?



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[*] posted on 6-13-2009 at 12:44 PM


Nicely done Nicola.
I am curious about the lute. There are no lutes (or other instruments) surviving from the European medieval period so can you provide more information about the model used by Vincenzo Ciprian for his lute design (a painting perhaps?), historical data used to determine bracing layout etc.
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[*] posted on 6-15-2009 at 10:36 AM


Quote: Originally posted by charlie oud  
Nicola, Your mp3 recording is beautiful. Do you play with plectrum or fingerstyle on your medieval lute?.

http://www.vanedwards.co.uk/1.htm
You may enjoy this site


J D, David van edwards makes a couple of models and shows the iconography upon which they are based. As for bracing etc there are only later models i.e. 6 course. Plectrum use on the 5 & 4 course was common so oud construction would be a reasonable guide, dont you think?




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[*] posted on 6-15-2009 at 12:44 PM


Yes - but there are no surviving ouds either that predate even the late 18th C - let alone the Medieval period.
Recreation of any lute, prior to the 16th C, is an exercise in speculation. Not that one should not try.
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[*] posted on 6-16-2009 at 05:16 AM


The music is Nas Coitas a Cantigas composed from King Alfonso X de Castiglia!!

I mean the one on the website!
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[*] posted on 6-16-2009 at 05:22 AM


Here a website of "maestro Vincenzo Cipriani"!
The medival lute is e reproduction from e fresco placed in S: Agostino church in Assisi!
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[*] posted on 6-16-2009 at 08:38 AM


Looking at the price on the vanedwards site for the medieval lute I wonder if any oud makers in the Near East or Maghreb would make or convert into a lute a four or five course oud by making a straight pegbox and add the touchettes. It might make a perfectly respectable alternative, especially for those of us who do the odd banquet or fair, where life is not terribly refined.

Our am I behind the curve and instruments are already being shipped in large numbers from the skilled craftsmen of this area to the open arms of the West's impecunious players?
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[*] posted on 6-16-2009 at 03:46 PM


Nicola - for those of us who may be unfamiliar with the fresco in the St Agostino church in Assisi is it possible to post an image for information?

Also do you have a link to the website of "maestro Vincenzo Cipriani" - if this will provide an answer to my question about the design of the lute?

Thanks
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