Good lord- Now I really remember; I visited Passauro in his workshop in NYC way back then (young guitarist, searching for my first lute)- beautiful craftsmanship and mile high bridge cable strings that only a double-bass player could manage! My oldest son plays double-bass. Those really are bridge cables to lutenist. I ended up with a weird 9 course thing by Rubio- bridge saddle, metal ftets; the works! But the soundboard withstood a direct 30 yard frisbee hit in Golden Gate Park in 1968 . Thanks for the link- & the memories! Dan On 8/13/2013 2:25 PM, William Samson wrote:
In case anybody has never seen a Passauro lute, here's one that he built in 1967. I've seen it and the craftsmanship is impeccable, but the appearance is quite odd to a modern lutenist's eye. [1]http://image-projects.lib.ed.ac.uk/bitstream/10683/16909/1/0032282c- 0001.jpg Bill From: Dan Winheld [2]<dwinh...@lmi.net> To: Edward Mast [3]<nedma...@aol.com> Cc: 'lute' [4]<lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Tuesday, 13 August 2013, 16:35 Subject: [LUTE] Re: now- How did Iadone play? Hi Ed- That's right- New York Pro Musica, Noah Greenberg. And those old heavy but cool Passauro (Sp?) lutes. Do you know if there are any vids of him playing? Or even still pictures somewhere? Even some ex- student's description would help. I have largely gone over to thumb-out myself- "HIP" thumb out as far as I can figure it out- too much Archlute, Baroque lute & late Renaissance lute to stay with thumb under exclusively; so I would like to know more about how Joe played, since his recorded sound impressed me so much all those years ago. Thanks! - Dan On 8/13/2013 6:40 AM, Edward Mast wrote: > Hi Dan, > > Joseph Iadone was my first exposure to the lute. He headed an early music workshop that I attended for several years in Vermont (early 70's). Lucy Cross taught there also. And Richard Taruskin, who led us through the early chapters of Hindemith's Elementary Training for Musicians. I never heard any lute solos there, just amazing ensemble music, and lute songs, of course. (Russell Oberlin was there the first year I attended). Joe was a truly unique player; no one played - or plays - like him. I actually first heard about him through my brother, who was studying bass with him at the Hartt School of Music. He did play with the New York Pro Musica, founded by Noah Greenberg. I have some of their recordings with Joe, or Christopher Williams (one of his students) playing. He also made some wonderful recordings with the Renaissance Quartet. One of the recordings I have on CD is one he did largely himself at home, recording all the parts to duos, trios and quartets. > The story as I've heard it is that Hindemith asked Joe to play the lute in his collegium at Yale, so he had to teach himself how to play it. I think some of the information about technique he got from the introduction to Varietie of Lute Lessons. Thumb over (or out) but without nails and thumb-index for single lines. > > Ned > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > [5]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > -- References 1. http://image-projects.lib.ed.ac.uk/bitstream/10683/16909/1/0032282c-0001.jpg 2. mailto:dwinh...@lmi.net 3. mailto:nedma...@aol.com 4. mailto:lute@cs.dartmouth.edu 5. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html
