[LUTE] Re: Fantastic French Lute Festival

2006-04-30 Thread guy_and_liz Smith
] To: Rebecca Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED], lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: [LUTE] Re: Fantastic French Lute Festival Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 00:28:16 +0100 (BST) i think they're called strap pegs and if previous correspondence is anything to go by they're very much frowned on by those who re-enact early

[LUTE] Re: Fantastic French Lute Festival

2006-04-30 Thread bill kilpatrick
--- guy_and_liz Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hardly. Come to an LSA seminar some time. You'll see quite a few folks playing with a strap, myself among them. The person who convinced me to try one was Pat O'Brian, who has more than a little credibility as a pedagogue as well as a

[LUTE] Re: Fantastic French Lute Festival

2006-04-29 Thread Rebecca Banks
April 29th, 2006 Dear Lutenists: I noticed in all the photographs from the French Lute Festival, the lute players were all wearing straps on their Lutes. Is this the usual way to play a Lute? If so what is the button called on the other side of the Lute? (I have one on