I yet have difficulty understanding the purist as I'm not sure how one
defines what is pure. Yes we can attempt to duplicate the several string
formats of old, and we can duplicate the instrument from museum pieces (but
never exactly how they sounded together). But can we duplicate the tempi of
the
Demonstrating absurdity by being absurd? You're right it is a conundrum no
matter how you figure it.
Vance Wood.
- Original Message -
From: "Craig Robert Pierpont" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "lute list"
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 11:51 AM
Subject: [LU
At 04:38 PM 10/27/2005, Vance Wood wrote:
>So it could be argued that if being a purist is the
>essence of good Lute practice could it not also be said that playing a
>modern reproduction Lute using modern wood working tools from computer
>generated plans under unnatural lighting conditions is also
Vance,
Then the purest would be playing on a 300 year old instrument, something few
people 300 years ago would have been doing.
Craig
Craig R. Pierpont
Another Era Lutherie
www.anotherera.com
Vance Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Carl:
Should not the purist play only real
museum instrument
Wood.
- Original Message -
From: "Carl Donsbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Cc: "Benjamin Narvey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 11:59 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: An epistle from the gut
> Greetings Benjamin and all,
>
> I'll
Greetings Benjamin and all,
I'll throw in my 2 cents too then. As an undergrad studying classical
guitar, I used to use gut strings on my *modern* instrument, so I enjoy and
appreciate a good "heresy"! I too have stayed up late pondering these
things and while I doubt my neighbors have taken
Benjamin,
--- Benjamin Narvey
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>When I hear people talk
> about their almost religious
> epiphane's after switching to gut, or how they were
> overwhelmed by the beauty
> factor, I honestly don't know what they're on about.
> The difference is at
> best a subtle one.
> Dear all,
>
> I quite agree with Ariel's point here. I have been thinking a lot about
> gut
> stringing recently, and have already experimented with it on various sorts
> of
> instruments over the past few years.
>
> First off, I think it was clear that all Ariel meant to say was that
> Ho