Playing the guitar like this is not so difficult if just strumming as the waist of the guitar sits nicely on the right hip bone. I have used it myself this way. However, the shape of the lute does not commend itself to this method! Nick
-----Original Message----- From: Juan Fco. Prieto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 May 2006 18:03 To: Katherine Davies; lutelist Subject: [LUTE] Re: lute straps Believe or not, Katherine, even today there is some Spanish flamenco guitarists that play guitar standing up without any strap (rather for playing while singing). I used renaissance lute in this way, but I must to recognise that the strap is more confortable... but not indispensable. I have strap button since one month only. The instrument is sustained with a mix of left hand palm, right forearm, belly [ more efficiently on fat people, stop your diet immediately :-)) ] or chest and, in case of lute, pinkie right finger. You can see to play guitar like this, for example, the famous Spanish guitar and voice duo "Los del R=EDo", authors of the famous "Macarena" song. Well, that seems a little off-topic. Excuse me. Greetings, Juan Fco. 2006/5/2, Katherine Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > There are lots of renaissance pictures of people > playing lutes while standing up without any sign of a > strap. Does anyone do this? Any ideas on how - or if - > it could be done? > > I'm not having a go at strap-users; I'm just a bit > puzzled - I have enough trouble keeping the thing in > place when I'm sitting down. > > thanks, > Katherine Davies > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > -- Juan Fco. --
