I don't like the idea of a leather giutar strap either. From my teacher (Massimo Lonardi) I learned to use a simple strap: he prefers a black, non-slippering one, while I do use a silk coloured one. The most important detail, as far as I can tell, is to have a solid piece of string (5cm) tying your strap to the button of your lute , keeping the strap as close as possible to that button. The strap should laso be long enough to allow you to "sit" on the strap "queue", therefore being good extra 75 cm longer. Massimo learned it from Hopkinson Smith many years ago. Being a tall guy (1,91m) I experimented a lot of different positions, but using a strap this way has proven to me as the most comfortable AND the stablest. Ciao, Luca JarosÅaw Lipski on 14-05-2007 19:20 wrote:
Does anybody have an email contact to Janice Parkinson-Tucker? She was advertising her lute straps in the Lute Society of America magazine some time ago. Personally I don't like leather guitar straps for lutes and would be grateful if somebody gives me some details on where to get a nice lute strap via internet. Thank you Jaroslaw Lipski -- To get on or off this list see list information at [1]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html References 1. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
