Tag: medieval

  • Master/Chef

    When you change a set of strings on an instrument, one of the things you have to be careful of is to maintain tension in the instrument. A guitar or violin or piano is not one solid thing, it is an assembly of wood and wire that only keeps its shape because it is under…

  • "a little bird told me…"

    Yesterday, I just started reading in earnest the titanic, 5-volume, 3,856-page Oxford History of Western Music by Richard Taruskin. One tidbit I’m particularly tickled by was this account of the origin of the idiom “a little bird told me

  • "a little bird told me…"

    Yesterday, I just started reading in earnest the titanic, 5-volume, 3,856-page Oxford History of Western Music by Richard Taruskin. One tidbit I’m particularly tickled by was this account of the origin of the idiom “a little bird told me