Hi guys, strange, how there is never any lute related material on the box, and then all of a sudden several in a row.
1st, a movie with Marilyn Monroe & Laurence Olivier, where a Swedish Theorbo features prominently. Monroe even strikes it a couple of times! 2nd, Al Pacinos -96 docu-drama about Shakespeare's play Richard III. (The one with the line: "To the lascivious pleasing of a lute"). Remembering recent postings about young guitarists being reluctant to taking up the lute. A short sequence shows a few musicians playing at a crew party. Harpsicord, Lyra, bass recorder and 8 course lute played standing with a strap. Here's what the lutenist (are you reading this?) does: He's playing in "guitar" tuning from guitar notation! Terribly un-HIP, but I must say it removes those obstacles for a guitarist. (Personally this is not the road to go, (not least because it makes some lute chords unplayable, but OTOH others that are hard to play in proper lute tuning easier like B, C etc.). I suppose, there must be more players doing it this way. I guess, whatever works for you...) A Merry Christmas to y'all Göran PS. Totally unrelated: Am I hallucinating when hearing many motifs from Paladino's fantasias in the Long Siena Ricercar?
