[LUTE] Re: left hand exercise

2018-01-06 Thread Dan Winheld
Wow David- you make it sound musical! (I always thought wood shedding was supposed to sound ugly so that it would be more like "work"- that's they way I've always done it...) -Dan On 1/6/2018 7:27 AM, David van Ooijen wrote: As said before, I'm not much into exercises on the lute,

[LUTE] Re: left hand exercise

2018-01-06 Thread Jurgen Frenz
Thank you for sharing. Yes technical exercises is not everybody's approach. But I do think that _A LITTLE_ of it every day surely is beneficial. Best Jurgen -- "There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen." JalÄl ad-DÄ«n Muhammad

[LUTE] Re: New music for lute

2018-01-06 Thread Peter Martin
Hello all, Reporting back: sadly there was no new theorbo music in this concert. The three new pieces were all for solo recorder. A very fine concert nonetheless, with excellent continuo from Alex McCartney in Telemann, Blavet etc, and a couple of Kapsberger toccatas.

[LUTE] left hand exercise

2018-01-06 Thread David van Ooijen
As said before, I'm not much into exercises on the lute, lifting wine glasses and turning pages is about as sporty as it goes for me, but I currently have an on-line pupil who likes to have some. I made her this, beneficial for left-hand posture, slurs, ornaments, keeping fingers