Personally could never understand or tolerate a strap on any normal,
i.e., non-extended neck lute. Only necessary on tiny lutes (like wearing
a necktie!) or the big bad boys. My archlute- a rather small one- does
require the strap. But not my 68cm. 13 course bass rider d-minor lute.
Dan
On 8/16/2018 2:57 PM, David Van Edwards wrote:
Well yes I fear so!
Out of my searchable database of (now) 2060 images which I've been
collecting for years there are just 49 with a lute strap in use! And
most of those are archlutes or theorbos. I think this is indeed a
serious question.
An initial part of this database has been uploaded onto the Lute
Society website at
https://www.lutesociety.org/pages/lute-iconography-database but it is
still somewhat in a beta state and not all the fields have populated
properly yet. But you may find it interesting for searches such as this.
Best wishes,
David
At 22:09 +0100 16/8/18, Peter Martin wrote:
The Lute Society's recent Lutezine 126 contains about 27 pictures of
historic lute players, of whom about 0 are playing with a strap.
Should I simply throw away my new 'Capirola' lute strap, which
arrived
in the post this week? It's very pretty, but if no-one ever used
them........
Peter
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