In einer eMail vom 26.09.2006 16:39:37 Westeurop=E4ische Normalzeit schreibt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Which is a particularly odd notion because I almost never see lutes at > renaissance fairs. You're more likely to see steel-strung Dreadnaught > guitars strumming Americanized Irish drinking songs at such venues in my > neighborhood. > > Eugene I have a few copies of the American magazine Renaissance. One of the then has a title story called the Lute Reborn. On the cover there is a picture of Orwain Phyfe playing what could best be descrobed as a steel stung western guitar with with vihuela tendancies. He calls it an Italian chitarra battente. Here I go again ....... A chitarra battente was triple stung and his is single strung with what look like western guitar strings. It seems that if you look at both ends of the spectrum it is important for these people to seem authentic by calling their instruments lutes or chitarra battente but in the end it is just keeping up appearences. One of these magazines has an article that states that using HIP music would be impossible at such places because the audience would get bored. So what do they do use lots of drums and oriental instruments like hammered dulcimers etc. best wishes Mark -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
