That's getting on the wide side, Sterling. Would you have a problem with Bar 4 of L'Infidele? I agree that close spacing is difficult. I don't know how people can play with a string band of less than 148, but they do. People find a way.
Rob www.robmackillop.net On 4 Oct 2011, at 22:34, sterling price <spiffys84...@yahoo.com> wrote: > The bridge spacing I use is 157mm and is based on a large Edlinger. > Whenever I play a lute with a spacing much smaller than this, I find it > very difficult to play. > > --Sterling > From: Rob MacKillop <robmackil...@gmail.com> > To: BAROQUE-LUTE <baroque-lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> > Sent: Tuesday, October 4, 2011 2:05 AM > Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] L'Infidele > Enjoying exploring my new 13c, and slowly getting the feel for > right-hand string spacing and thumb placement. I'm determined not to > look at my right hand, just feel my way. So, I've been slowly growing > in confidence...until I read through Weiss' L'Infidele. > It's years since I listened to anyone play this suite, and it was a > great joy to start reading through the Entree: 'Hey, I can do this!'. I > read the Courante slowly, but thinking it a possibility I will one day > be able to play it up tempo. The Sarabande, like all Weiss Sarabandes, > is sublimely beautiful. The minuet lies under the fingers. So, I was > beginning to think this is a suite I can get my teeth into. Then I hit > the Musette... > Bar 4 demands the thumb on the 13th course, the index on the 5th and > (presumably) the ring finger on the 1st. The string band on my lute is > 153mm, and I have large hands. I should be able to do this, but is is > very hard. I can manage it, but, clearly, at a stretch. 153mm does not > seem excessive, and is pretty much bang in the middle of all surviving > 13c bridges, in other words an average size. Will practise of this > passage make my stretch longer? > Anyone else have problems with this passage? I seem (in desperation, > maybe) to recall someone arguing that originally the low A was up an > octave at the 6th course, and the 13th course was written in later. Any > info on that? > Rob MacKillop > [1]www.robmackillop.net > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- > > References > > 1. http://www.robmackillop.net/ >
