Amen: It does not matter if you use Nylon, Gut or Graphite and have the most brilliantly constructed Lute on the planet, if you play like you are wearing boxing gloves it will sound like you are wearing boxing gloves.
Vance Wood. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Manolo Laguillo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LUTELIST" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 2:31 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: student lutes (Re: Who wants to sell "New Boy" a lute?) > I agree with you, Ariel, in your putting the emphasis on the right spot... > > Manolo Laguillo > > > ariel abramovich wrote: > > > > > > > > > > >>Charlie, > >> > >>once again, people accuse me of insulting them (at least you, unlike > >>Abramovich and others before) did not insult me but answered with a > >>statement that I can relate to. Thanks. > >> > >> > > > >My friend: learn to listen (read) to yourself; spend some more time > >thinking, and then make your contributions. > >You were insulting, for instances suggesting that people using synthetic > >strings were simply as wrong as people who voted for Bush or supported WWI. > >I've only said that you were arrogant and ignorant; that was not an insult > >but a mere description of how you were acting. > > > >Now, about other people's priorities (not in order of importance): > >Can you make a flexible, audible and interesting sound with a lute? Would > >you be able to make music with that? > >Can you play the repertoire (or a substantial part of it) effortless, > >produce your own- and very personal- musical speech and transfer it to the > >audience? > >Can you for instances clearly hear- and choose exactly what to do with them- > >what happens with two, three or more voices while playing polyphony? > >Do you really understand meanings and intentions of the thousands of notes > >written by the ancient masters? How about your own signification? > >Can you play fast, clean and with expressiveness the huge amount of virtuoso > >music published for the renaissance lute? > >Are you able to convince people (all sorts of people) that is worth playing > >and listening lute and/or lute music, and that there's a whole world to be > >discovered? > >Are you capable of improvise divisions or "simple" two voice counterpoint? > >Are you able to accompany a singer with sensitivity, clarity and in a very > >supportive way? > >More important: > >Do you enjoy spending most of the day practicing the lute, trying to rise up > >your skills and to find new meanings to the material you're working with? > >Are you seriously "in love" and committed to the fantastic music we're > >working with? > > > >Personally speaking, once I know how to reply the former questions, I would > >worry about string's materials. Otherwise, I think something is missing. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at > >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > > > > > > -- >
