On Aug 22, 2007, at 6:59 PM, Jim Abraham wrote: > have Satoh's and Lundgren's methods, and I've > looked at Roman's website, so I understand the tuning, but if I > tune the > first course to f3, the 13th course is waaay too slack to play. > Even the > first course seems too slack at f3, but then I've never played a lute > before. Any advice?
Yes: get used to it. You'll come to love it in time. I'm assuming 1) that you're coming to it from modern classical guitar and 2) the strings aren't actually resting on the frets. If you've got guitar fingers, lute stringing will seem very slack. It needs a different approach and different technique. For now, just be gentle. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
