I also once thought the idea of having the venue supplying a theorbo was a good idea - that is until the problems experienced by many Double Bassists offered this option were pointed out: unless they travelled with their own instruments they generally found the basses supplied by the venues were very poor and invariably badly set up and strung.....
MH --- On Wed, 12/8/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [LUTE] Re: Traveling with lute To: [email protected], "Daniel Winheld" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, 12 August, 2009, 4:43 AM Dan, Great idea. I think colleges/churches/concert venues should foot the bill like they do with pianos and organs. They should also provide us theorbenists with page turners like they do for keyboardenists. ;-) Chris --- On Tue, 8/11/09, Daniel Winheld <[1][email protected]> wrote: > From: Daniel Winheld <[2][email protected]> > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Traveling with lute > To: [3][email protected] > Date: Tuesday, August 11, 2009, 11:54 AM > Another option- especially for those > musicians with periodically > recurring gigs in the same places- is to stash theorboes at > the > different locations. At a certain point, the cumulative > expenses for > super cases, cases-for-the cases, and multiple first class > tickets is > going to reach the price of a theorbo anyway. The late Zia > Moihuddin > Dagar used to keep three Rudra Vinas around the world > (large bass > size vina, with two huge gourd resonators at each end) one > in Mumbai, > one in Calcutta, and one in Chicago. > > Dan > -- > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > [4]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > -- References 1. http://uk.mc263.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected] 2. http://uk.mc263.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected] 3. http://uk.mc263.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected] 4. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
