--- Roman Turovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> i repeat that recordings of the lute/guitar > instrument > >> popular in germany before the war should be > plentiful > >> and could prove useful as the playing technique > for > >> these shouldn't have differed greatly from the > lute > >> proper. > > > > If by "lute proper" you mean "the lute as it was > built and played from 1500 > > to 1800," your assumption is incorrect. The > lute-like instruments popular > > in Germany early in the century were not built or > played like historical > > lutes. The people building and playing them did > not know a fraction as much > > as most of us know about the historical lute, and > were not really concerned > > with recreating historical lute music. > > HP > True, notwithstanding a few examples of rather > historical lute manufacture > in the late 19th, early 20th cent. > RT
fab! ... - i thought we were talking about where people placed their pinkies and whether they played close to or away from the bridge. - presumably, the technique for playing medium to large, bowl backed, lute family instruments in a european context is the same for one as another. - if not, are there audio samples which demonstrate the difference(s) and can we hear them via the internet? this is not meant as contentious but do you think the people who played the lutes that we consider as historical knew as much about them as some of us do? - william ===== "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. go to: http://www.charango.cl/paginas/quieninvento.htm ___________________________________________________________ Moving house? Beach bar in Thailand? New Wardrobe? Win �10k with Yahoo! Mail to make your dream a reality. Get Yahoo! Mail www.yahoo.co.uk/10k To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
