>>>> 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. No, it's not. Wandervogel-laute has nothing to do with lute-proper in terms of playing.
> 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 VERY, VERY few. Definitely insufficient to make a generalization. RT To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
