I only play Renaissance lute and I don't use one, though I know accomplished players who swear by them, as in "By my lutestrap!".
On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 6:43 PM, Dan Winheld <[1][email protected]> wrote: 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 [2]https://www.lutesociety.org/pa ges/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 -- To get on or off this list see list information at [3]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. https://www.lutesociety.org/pages/lute-iconography-database 3. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
