Rob wrote:
I would like to read/hear more from beginners...
So I call on all those lurkers who are even too shy to contribute emails,
let us know what you are up to, ask questions. I have many questions of my
own - the subject is too large for one person to know everything.
Ok, I'll bite. I bought my first lute a few months ago, a used 7c by
John Underwood. (I'm not at home at the moment, so I might have that
name wrong...) I'm finding that my initial difficulty in finding a
comfortable position to hold the instrument has decreased, but not gone
away completely, so I'm thinking about having strap buttons added and
playing with a strap. In thinking about this, I have spent some time on
the internet trying to find out whether there is any evidence of strap
buttons on 16th or early 17th century lutes, and I'm coming up empty. I
haven't been able to find any discussion of the subject at all, let
alone a conclusion one way or the other. Either I just don't know the
right terms to search with, or, more likely, it's such common knowledge
that no one has bothered to write it down anywhere that google knows
about.
At this point, I've more or less decided to have strap buttons added
regardless of authenticity, but my curiosity remains unsatisfied. Can
anyone here shed some light on the subject?
thanks,
Greg Fleming
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