--- On Fri, 1/6/12, wikla <[email protected]> wrote: > > Are there really any serious lutenists, who just "push the buttons", just > set the finger on the string without "colouring" the pitch by the finger > pressure up or down?
I find just "pushing the buttons" to be pretty hard in itself. Chris Christopher Wilke D.M.A. Lutenist, Guitarist and Composer www.christopherwilke.com Arto On Fri, 6 Jan 2012 22:45:37 +0100, "Jean-Marie Poirier" <[email protected]> wrote: > David, I made amends for that mistake of mine ! ;-( > > There is another quotation from Mersenne I like very much : > > "According to the common saying of musicians, the lute is the charlatan of > music, because it passes off as good that whichis bad on good > instruments..." (Translated by Mark Lindley , Lutes, Viols and > Temperaments, Cambridge University Press, 1984) > > I like the isea of playing a "charlatan of music" :-). Don't you ? > > Best, > > Jean-Marie > > ================================= > > == En réponse au message du 06-01-2012, 22:39:12 == > >>2012/1/6 Jean-Marie Poirier <[email protected]>: >> >>> I think his {Denis'] "ivory frets", which could be adjusted according >>> to the required temperament, are only another experimental endeavour >>> comparable with Galilei's suggested use of "tastini" >> >> >>On the contrary, Galilei does not suggest the use of tastini, instead >>he mentions them as "... tastini, which lately some people seek to >>introduce in order to remove some of their sharpness from the thirds >>and major tenths (as they try to persuade those who are more foolish >>than they)."(Fronimo 1584, translation Carol MacClintock 1985). >> >>So Galilei was not in favour of tastini at all, but there were lute >>players in his time who were. Nothing new, in other words. ;-) >> >>David >> >> >>-- >>******************************* >>David van Ooijen >>[email protected] >>www.davidvanooijen.nl >>******************************* >> >> >> >>To get on or off this list see list information at >>http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > ========================================
