--- Vance Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Concerning the survival of the Guitar: > > This is just speculation but it makes sense to me. > By the time the Guitar > was gaining in popular use among the low down and > unwashed for banging out > chords the Lute had evolved into something not > everyone could play that was > not a serious musician. The concept of "banging out > chords" in some tavern > was not something you might find being done with a > fourteen course Lute. Of > course many serious musicians were playing the > Guitar as well as the Lute. > However the Lute had become like many creatures in > nature that attained > eventual extinction, they became to highly > specialized to change as the > environment changed, in this case the musical > environment. The Guitar > survived because it was more adaptable and less > difficult to string and > play.
considerably cheaper and easier to make, i imagine, as well as being more robust. another possibility could be its flexible size. a small, easily portable guitar would look, feel and sound like a larger version of the instrument while a tiny lute would still be difficult to carry, still have too many strings and be way too quiet for a pub - it could have simply lost out to the mandolin. - bill > Vance Wood. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stewart McCoy" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Lute Net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 10:34 AM > Subject: Vihuela vs guitar > > > > Dear Roman, > > > > There may be some truth in what you say, but it > doesn't explain why > > the guitar flourished, and the lute didn't. Both > instruments are a > > bit on the quiet side for large concert halls. > > > > Best wishes, > > > > Stewart McCoy. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Roman Turovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Jon Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Lute List" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 5:04 PM > > Subject: Re: vihuela vs guitar > > > > > > > > And my question included the possibilty > > > > that the preservation of the "lute third" > location might have > > doomed the > > > > lute for the more modern play (like 19th C.). > > > No, the sociology of music (i.e. concert hall) > was responsible for > > lute's > > > demise. > > > > > RT > > > > > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > > > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > ===== "and thus i made...a small vihuela from the shell of a creepy crawly..." - Don Gonzalo de Guerrero (1512), "Historias de la Conquista del Mayab" by Fra Joseph of San Buenaventura ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
