Tenor viol. Tuned like a lute. Have fun! Fretless is not always fancy free. dt
At 07:21 PM 10/23/2008, you wrote: >On Tue, Oct 21, 2008, Ed Durbrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Thanks, all. > > Well, I was just daydreaming. I think I may be coming to the end of > > my serious lute playing phase of my career, so I thought it might be > > good to expand into something different just for my own enjoyment, > > mostly. Also, I want something that doesn't use the same muscles or > > body contortions as the lute. > >drum. > >bowed strings, with drones, yes, one or more srtings are bowed together, >but otherwise, usually one string at a time is plenty for the fiddler. > > > I like Medieval music but I have nobody to play it with and single > > lines on the lute are kind of boring. > >have you no way to record tracks and play with yourself? > >Are there no musical children available? Check your local library, may >have programs for teens which welcome volunteers, if you lend instruments >for the session you could probably find some very enthusiastic players for >early repetoire. Might be some talented players in a middle school >orchestra (yes, a few of the schools around me still have music programs). > >Perhaps a local college has a music school? Often there are playing >groups which welcome volunteers. > > > Gamba is > > too ambitious and the wrong period. > >Gamba and violin both overlap machaut, mid-to-late 1400's. rebec is >thought by many to be predesesser of violin, but the tuning of rebec is a >guess at best, so you can do with it as pleases. Position for rebec is >mid-chest, no under the chin, so not exactly violin; and, remember, the >early violins had a different setup from the modern, no chinrest, easy to >go up the neck, hard to go down. > > > Viele has a drone string, doesn't > > it? > >not necessarily. If it does, the neck and bridge will be flat enough to >make it impossible to play just one string. > > > > So you see, I don't want to work too hard! That is why I want > > something tuned relatively like a lute. > >I thought it would be hard to shift from my many years of guitar and lute >experience to violin, but it wasnt at all, I had much better intonation >than I thought I would from the start (I didnt make a long go of that, the >neck repair broke after a couple weeks, this was several decades ago, >havent gotten around to fixing it yet, was going to convert it to a >baroque neck, then got distracted into other stuff). > >Ed, let go the mouse, grab that fiddle and give it a try. Maybe buy some >red bean paste buns to bribe the neighbors into likeing it :-). >-- >Dana Emery > > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
