Yes, The Tale of Despereaux is the one I reported early in December, before the film was released on Dec 19th. Unfortunately, these YouTube clips are far too brief to discern exactly what the king is playing.
I think we'll have to watch the film to find out more, for the full picture of the instrument and the actual sound-track. Maybe someone already has? Thanks for reminding us Mathias. Best Wishes Ron (UK) -----Original Message----- From: "Mathias Rösel" [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 10:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LUTE] Re: Lute sighting Here's a lute-playing king: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwPsEMpxwJQ&feature=related (at 0:27). Now how's that! ^_^ Mathias "Nancy Carlin" <[email protected]> schrieb: > We just got a few books from Amazon, including the new J.K. Rowling > book Beedle the Bard. On page 45 the drawing at the top of the page is > a lute - it has something like 5-6 strings and about 8 pegs. I don't > think the accompanying story has anything to do with lute music. > Nancy > > Nancy Carlin Associates > P.O. Box 6499 > Concord, CA 94524 USA > phone 925/686-5800 fax 925/680-2582 > web site - [1]www.nancycarlinassociates.com > Administrator THE LUTE SOCIETY OF AMERICA > web site - [2]http://LuteSocietyofAmerica.org > -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
