On 1/18/2009, "Rob MacKillop" <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh, they are all the same...lutes, guitars, vihuelas, ukuleles - just > put your fingers where the tab tells you to, and hope for the best. I > can't play any wind instruments (I faint) and I can't for the life of > me understand the supposed logic of a keyboard. My job at Queen > Margaret University allows me access to all sorts of instruments. We > have at home just now a very expensive Roland sythesiser, with an > unbelievable number of sounds. I tried playing it for an hour - almost > went insane. Picked up my ukulele - ah, Heaven!
Having only 4 courses/strings is a bless! With my ren. guitar - 4 courses - for ex. - the key doesn't matter much. The more courses, the more problems... :-) Best luck! And I guess simplicity will win the complexity... ;-) Arto To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
