Jam the gears and dope the pegheads. ;-) Re extended/modern techniques on early instruments: When you see the Buddha on the road, kill him. (But it takes Buddha to do so.) Iaw, when you want to make your own school of lute playing, find your own voice, write your own music and generally are not interested in finding out about how to play Francesco, Dowland or Weiss, please go ahead. But if If you want to play Weiss et al, try and figure out how Weiss played. If Weiss would have had a guitar/guitar-lute/used another technique on his B-lute, played with nails, no-pinky, above the rose, whatever, he would have written different music. Same argument with 'if Bach would have a Steinway he would have loved it'. Sure he would have loved it, who knows? But he certainly would have written different music. The instrument you have, its shortcomings and strong point, and the way you play it, what kind of tone production you favour, will influence the music you write for it. This is not an argument about what way is the best, but about what your goal in playing lute is. No argument there. David - loves it all
******************************* David van Ooijen [1][email protected] [2]www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* On 4 August 2014 20:56, Dan Winheld <[3][email protected]> wrote: I hate them on my own instrument because it came with them & I'm stuck with them. Dan Larson installed them. It was a prototype; not a built-to-order instrument, and I was damned lucky to get it. Everything south of the pegbox is the best Renaissance lute I've ever played or owned- but those abominable, Satanic Frankenpeg things slip a lot & need to be jammed in with great force to hold (while taking care not tear off the pegbox). Since this first lute was built, the pegs themselves- as well as Dan's skill at installing- them have improved exponentially. I would not consider getting an Orpharion or Bandora without them, but I still wouldn't order them for any kind of lute. A I have a couple of the guitar cranky things, they do work on the lute pegs as well as on my guitars tuners, but it's still much, much more troublesome to change a string compared popping out a regular peg. Not a big deal except for the 1st course, even synthetics are the ones that go the most frequently. I may change over just that one peg to a traditional, real peg if I can get someone to redo the holes to accommodate a normal peg. Dan On 8/4/2014 11:06 AM, Tobiah wrote: On 08/04/2014 10:56 AM, Dan Winheld wrote: I only hate them on my own instrument. On all the others I've tried, including one of my Baroque lute student's new Larson Burkholtzer copy, I grudgingly admit that they are fabulous. Until you have to change a string. :-D Right. A I have a little crank designed to help with changing strings on a guitar. A You slide it over the little tuning handle and crank away. A It goes pretty quickly. A Are you saying you hate them on your own instrument and so you don't install them, or that you have them and hate them, but only on your instrument? On 8/4/2014 10:44 AM, Edward Martin wrote: aYes, Nancy is correct. A I do use pegheds on my 11-course baroque lute, and my vihuela as well. A They are absolutely marvelous, a new revelation in tuning. A One can tune easily, more accurately than before, and much quicker. A a On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Nancy Carlin <[1][4][email protected]> wrote: About the pegs - guitar tuning pegs would be so heavy that the instruments would be listing toward the left in our laps. Fortunately the Peghead people have pegs that works well on lutes, vihuelas and orpharions. [2][5]http://www.pegheds.com/ I have peg heads on one of my orpharions and love them. They look like regular lute pegs and the tuning is a dream. A They are especially nice with my wire strings - now I spend more time playing and less time tuning. A The tiny gears inside the peg are configured so that you turn the peg something like 3 times more than a wooden peg. There are a couple of other people with Pegheads on the luts list - Dan Winheld is not a fan of them, but Ed Martin has them on a baroque lute and he likes them. I sometimes get a sense however that there is some taboo in searching out new adaptations of lute music or lutes themselves. A I've long lamented the apparent resistance of using modern tuning machines on a lute for example. A Had they been available at the time, I'm rather certain that the old masters would have joyously adopted them. A I guess it's like asking what Bach would have done if he had a pedal. I'm more interested in what I will do now that I have one. Tobiah To get on or off this list see list information at [3][6]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- Nancy Carlin Administrator THE LUTE SOCIETY OF AMERICA [4][7]http://LuteSocietyofAmerica.org PO Box 6499 Concord, CA 94524 USA [5]925 / 686-5800 [6][8]www.groundsanddivisions.info [7][9]www.nancycarlinassociates.com -- References 1. mailto:[10][email protected] 2. [11]http://www.pegheds.com/ 3. [12]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 4. [13]http://LuteSocietyofAmerica.org/ 5. tel:925%20%2F%20686-5800 6. [14]http://www.groundsanddivisions.info/ 7. [15]http://www.nancycarlinassociates.com/ -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. http://www.davidvanooijen.nl/ 3. mailto:[email protected] 4. mailto:[email protected] 5. http://www.pegheds.com/ 6. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 7. http://LuteSocietyofAmerica.org/ 8. http://www.groundsanddivisions.info/ 9. http://www.nancycarlinassociates.com/ 10. mailto:[email protected] 11. http://www.pegheds.com/ 12. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 13. http://LuteSocietyofAmerica.org/ 14. http://www.groundsanddivisions.info/ 15. http://www.nancycarlinassociates.com/
