Pardon me David, I wasn't speaking of doing an accent in the acting sense.
The question arose as to pronounciation of the English of older days,
something that even and an academically-inclined audience can guess. And
there was a comment on the stage use of accents (I don't remember the
context).
Wow, I seem to have opened a can of worms. Let this be near the end of it (I
never like to end a discussion, as is obvious). The players of the time were
performers, and as such could quite likely had the skills on the lute and
the singing. But the combination of instrument and story was not quite
Thank you Gernot, I have locked David Van E.'s site into my computer and
will look at it carefully before making any decision. But I wonder what that
decision will be, as it seems there is a lot of maintainence on a classic
lute, whereas a more modern version might be appropriate. I've got about
In a few weeks I'll have a proper lute. My lute from Pakistan will then
be a spare, and damaging it will not be a disaster.
Because this Paki-lute is more oud than lute, its courses are too close
together. To fix this, I want to replace the nut and bridge, converting
it from an 8-course to a
I spend on average a couple hours a day practicing and I've developed =
some pain in both my shoulders over the last two months so that it would =
be impossible for me to do a pull-up or chin-up exercise. For lack of =
any other reason, I'm wondering if it is due to my Lute playing. Has =
anyone
Are there instructions on how (or more importantly, where) to set frets
other than the Dowland/Gerle instructions?
HP
David,
What a pleasant message. With my apologies to the list for not editing out
our dialogue below (as I don't have time tonight to trim the message) I'll
add a few notes that may be of interest. I started with folk in 1949 for
some reason . I think it was probably part interest in my heritage
Stewart,
I'd reply to this if I had a reply. But since I agree with everything you
said (almost everything, I retain my option to disagree with details) I have
no reply. Usually a new entrant to a list is a bit circumspect, I'm afraid
this old curmudgeon isn't. And I compliment the list for not
With your indulgence this is the first of two or three requests I'll send
tonight (haven't figured out how to separate them into different categories
yet).
Fingering and technique. I know we all are different in physical form (hands
have many shapes). And I realize we each have to find what works
