Re: LUTE CAPO... I made a modified flamenco cejilla for my vihuela. A Conventional cejilla is about 3/4" tall in the center and usually has a full-size violin peg in it. This gets in the way of the hand. It is an awkward device. To remedy that my guitar teacher, Eddie Freeman, made tiny cejillas for classical/flamenco guitars that were only 1/8" (3mm) thick and had tiny handmade pegs that stuck up only 1/4" (6mm). In that a lute has an arched fingerboard, an individual with fine woodworking skills could make a lute cejilla the same way. I will shortly look at my photo library and send images of the small cejillas I have made. Eddie's pegs ware so small that they cause great pain to the finger tips when twisting them. I use the smallest child side violin peg.
Chris -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 11:08 PM To: R. Mattes; Dan Winheld Cc: Monica Hall; Gary R. Boye; Lutelist Subject: [LUTE] Re: Capo use on early instruments Hello All, and thanks for this discussion. I have an 8 course Renaissance lute which I recently used to play and record a piece a whole step higher. Instead of arduously fingered transposing, I strapped a nickel-silver section of a candle holder across the fingerboard at the 2nd fret with thick hair ties. This is no joke - it worked quite well. While it probably would have been better to acquire an instrument designed to be pitched higher, I don't have that kind of expendable income, so I improvised. A 1/4 x 5 or 6 machine screw with a solid shaft would probably work just as well. All the best, Tom From: Dan Winheld <[email protected]> Subject: [LUTE] Re: Capo use on early instruments Another good point- the only lute for which I built my own capo (pain in the butt piece of fussy work) was a 72 cm SL "Division" bass lute that worked very well as an "E" lute (a-415 or 440) with a generous 10 fret neck, and narrow-ish sloping shoulders at the neck-body joint. But, in order to work, required equal tempered frets. Great instrument for accompaniment as well as a substantial amount of solo work. But a 58 - 62 cm SL, 8-fret neck tenor lute with meantone fretting? forget the damn capo! Dan On 9/25/2013 4:13 PM, R. Mattes wrote: >> He makes the point that they did it in this way because the vihuela >> >had only 10 frets and a capo on the fingerboard would have reduced >> >this to 9. > and lutes only had 7 or 8 frets ... > 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
