On Sep 9, 2007, at 9:47 PM, Jim Abraham wrote: > I take lessons from Chris Henriksen in Boston, and all his lutes > (and his > wife's viols) are hanging on the walls of the music room. There's > no way > they all could be put in cases -- you'd need a room just for the > cases.
That's the first time I've ever heard someone suggest that keeping an instrument out of its case saves space. Unless Chris and Carol have no cases for their instruments, the cases have to take up space somewhere, and they'll take up exactly the same amount of space with the instruments inside them. Some of the handier lute players I know-- Jim Lidgett and Bob Clair come to mind -- have rigged up floor-to- ceiling shelf systems that can house a surprising number of instruments in a surprisingly small space. > This room is de/humidified, and the instruments are hanging against > tapestries rather than the bare wall. And nothing properly hung > from a wall > by someone not a total putz ever just spontaneously drops. I don't know where Stephen Gibson, who asked the original question, lives, but there are places in the world where walls spontaneously move. A Southern California native knows that you should never put anything on a wall or a shelf that you wouldn't want falling on your head when the ground shakes. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
