Hello everyone! I'm new to the Lute mailing list. I may of been on it before, years ago... but if I was, that would be on a different and now defunct e-mail address. Anyway, I'm Joshua, I'm 26 and I live in south central Texas.
I have yet to be able to afford a Lute, but I do have an old Spanish classical Guitar from Mexico. I'm a Guitarist of 12 or 13 years, but I'm not one of those rocker types that do all those crazy solos and things, my hands aren't built for that, I'm just not quite that quick. I'm trying to learn to read Lute tablature, but I'm not used to it yet, as I read Guitar tablature, (I.E. the number based tabs, or Italian tablature as it's called). I usually tune the G on my Guitar to #F and then put a capo on the 3rd fret to get a close pitch. I do have a question, how do you read the timing symbols above the Lute tablature? I've looked on the page at the Lute Page (Dartmouth page) that explains reading tabs, but I'm confused about that still. Any help would be appreciated! I've actually written my own tablature typesetting software, I use that most often. It runs in the UNIX command line. I was using some of the more advanced and feature full tablature editors.. but they just have too much "features" I don't need. Anyway! Hi everyone! Joshua E. Horn -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
