Thank You David! This is a very cool tidbit of information. I have tried it, and it immediately changed my thinking on how to "strike" the strings of a lute. I am having to undo many years of Leo Kottke style steel-string guitar technique when trying to play Renaissance lute. Pluck too hard, or in the wrong place, and one gets "hellish jarring sounds". When striking strings laterally it is very easy to strike with too much force, resulting in string movement where the strings collide with each other and the fretboard. I have long known that pressing a string towards the fingerboard, then releasing, gives a tone where there is no "fret buzz", since the string cannot rebound any further than originally pressed. Your video seems a combination of verticle pressing plus a small amount of lateral movement to set the course in motion. I have been applying this idea to my playing of songs from John Dowland's "First Booke of Ayres" (and the second) with good results. It is a very different tactile feeling to come at the strings vertically, then brush sideways, but the results speak for themselves. Thanks again! Tom
Tom Draughon Heartistry Music http://www.heartistrymusic.com/artists/tom.html 714 9th Avenue West Ashland, WI 54806 715-682-9362 > I made a video of an exercise I like: just making a good tone. Not as > in focus as it should be, but I think the point does get across: > > http://youtu.be/eAiLytW3Dzs > > 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 Tom Draughon Heartistry Music http://www.heartistrymusic.com/artists/tom.html 714 9th Avenue West Ashland, WI 54806 715-682-9362
