From: Christopher Wilke <[email protected]> Subject: [LUTE] Re: Capo use on early instruments Tom, Nice thinking. On a recording, I doubt few, if any people would notice that you capo-ized. Just to keep your early music street cred, be sure to make up data for your "new" lute on the liner notes, i.e. "alto lute after Gerlenbrucher by S. Kubrick, 2001." ;-) Chris I like it, Chris. So let it be written ... so let it be done! I have been working non-stop for the past three days on final mixes and mastering for the recording it's on - a new Christmas CD with Celtic Harp, Lute, Hammered Dulcimer, Voice, Recorders, Guitars ... Ancient songs and two original instrumentals. Sort of folk - early music "crossover". http://www.heartistry.com/xmas.html It's titled "Season of Delight", and we're doing a series of concerts in our area in November and December. I used the capo on "The Bird Carol". Thanks, Tom
-------------------------------------------- On Fri, 10/11/13, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: Subject: [LUTE] Re: Capo use on early instruments To: "R. Mattes" <[email protected]>, "Dan Winheld" <[email protected]> Cc: "Monica Hall" <[email protected]>, "Gary R. Boye" <[email protected]>, "Lutelist" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, October 11, 2013, 12:08 AM 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 Tom Draughon Heartistry Music http://www.heartistrymusic.com/artists_tom.html 714 9th Avenue West Ashland, WI 54806 715-682-9362
