I think trying to make an argument that one form of tab. is better than
another is both counter-productive and epistemologically unsound. The fact
will in the end remain, that a serious Lute student will have to be at the
least familiar with Italian, French and German tab (if not fluent)
Wow! A return to music performance relevance. I thought we were having a
discussion on semantics and construction of the English language.
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From: Ron Andrico praelu...@hotmail.com
To: vidan...@sbcglobal.net; lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 7:36
I agreeI think. The snare for me is in having to accept the judgment of
others that have through research and study come to the same conclusion that
I came to without the research and study: We can only guess at how this
music was played considering that none of us were around to hear it
This is for dunces like me who have problems thinking about more than one
thing at a time.
The one thing that makes complex contrapuntal lines easy to manipulate on
the Lute is the use of tablature (in my opinion). Now I know there are
those out there that can recognize the counterpoint just
Just my opinion and not based on anything other than experience; those who
made the switch in the Sixteenth-Century and beyond were already habituated
toward a right hand approach that attacks both strings. This is not the
case with a person coming at the Lute from the Guitar. The right hand
=bXb3zih2umw
Looks alot like Post-Segovia
guitar technique commonly taught these
days.
Mark Delpriora
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From: vance wood [3][16]vancew...@wowway.com
To: Lute List [4][17]l...@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Thu, Mar 18, 2010 8:49 am
You could continue using Classical Guitar technique to begin with but you
will have to concentrate on collapsing the first joint and striking both
strings together. It is easier to do this with the thumb under but not
impossible.
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From: morgan cornwall
Maybe we are seeing here what some of Dowland's contemporary critics meant
when they remarked about Dowland's lousy counterpoint. Can it be that we
are assuming that Dowland would not write in such a manner, ignoring the
fact that indeed he did---on purpose?
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From:
How about home defense? Remember El Kabong, the alter ego of Quick Draw
McGraw?
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From: morgan cornwall mcornw...@ns.sympatico.ca
To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu; Eugene C. Braig IV brai...@osu.edu
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 10:07 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Viola-Matic
Can you define what you mean by sounding neither renaissance or baroque?
This seems to me to open up a host of additional questions like how do we
know what either actually sounded like? I don't want to seem argumentative
in any way but what you are saying here is that there are three sounds
I speak only from my playing experience and from what I have read here and
in a couple of old Lute sources. If the standard method of playing
diminutions was to alternate between thumb and index finger (early to mid
Sixteenth Century) then it is safe to assume that a thumb rest stroke is not
Actually;--- from one contemporary source, approximately twenty-years of
effort on behalf of the Lute player.
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From: Benjamin Narvey luthi...@gmail.com
To: Ed Durbrow edurb...@sea.plala.or.jp
Cc: LuteNet list lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 6:32
I don't see how that would be possible, there is nothing to rest against
except the inside of the hand?
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From: terli...@aol.com
To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 6:34 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Thumb rest stroke
Do any early sources describe
I agree and I disagree: I agree that everyone who listens and watches a
performance is qualified to make an assessment, but that can only go as far
as their observation and appreciation of the music. When someone starts
making critical comments about technique then I feel they must be able to
I would say that would be the job of well made and well set pegs. An
argument could be made for the actual strength of the Lute's construction,
making the assumption that the entire instrument may shrink or expand with
the level of humidity but I find this specious. Is staying in tune the sign
I suppose that if the recording is out there those who view it have a right
to critique it. However; I think this should be shaded by whether or not
the critic has had the guts to do the same and if they did would they feel
the same way. To those of you who do put out performances on YouTube
If you are talking about DD211, sometimes called the Cambridge Manuscript
odds are good it is one of the F.DaMilano Fantasias/Ricercares popular in
England. It is most definitely a Fantasy, which in turn could be an
intabulation of some chanson.
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From: Matteo Turri
I can only offer opinion at this point not as yet having had time to ferret
out the piece from the copies of English Manuscripts I have. It is a fact
that many of F. DaMilano's compositions found their way into English
anthologies such as DD211 and a couple of others. They were of course
I still hold to my opinion; it is an untitled Fantasia, probably by Milano
form the Cambridge Manuscript?. You are correct about the Pavan. This
piece does not start out like any Pavan I know of, it starts like a
Fantasia, a Milano Fantasia. You might want to write to the artists that
put
It sounds very much like something Milan would have written. I would have
liked to have heard the rest of it, the only way to be sure. It was
probably written around 1535 or there about. F.DaMilano is also an outside
possibility due to the contrapuntal structure but again the sample is too
This discussion is probably more hypothetical than objective, being
determined by the individual player more than an over all axiom. I think
that the actual effort of warming up the hands plays a dual purpose; that
of warming up the focus. As the hands become mobile the mind becomes more
That's really the only problem with this musical list; snobbery. Not
everyone who plays the Lute, or wants to play the Lute is a purist. Some
people play just because they enjoy it knowing full well that they will
never make a profession of it. This kind of attitude simply turns off those
That was very nice, beautiful, clean and without pretension. I'm glad you
took the time to put this together.
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From: Ron Andrico praelu...@hotmail.com
To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2009 7:11 AM
Subject: [LUTE] [LUTE]
To All:
After
I was not referring to intentional fraud but if he is using the site to make
contacts, contract instruments, and take payment for the same but knows that
he is either unable or unwilling to deliver a finished product, then it is
fraud none the less. If the contact numbers on his site are
Howard: I am not ruining his reputation, or any of the people who have
purchased instruments from him, He has done it to himself by not
communicating and by accepting new business while these more pressing issue
are left outstanding. It is at the least unethical, and illegal. You can
say it
as a good
luthier by speculation and hearsay.
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From: howard posner howardpos...@ca.rr.com
To: Lute List lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 12:37 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Luciano Faria
On Dec 15, 2009, at 8:52 AM, vance wood wrote:
Howard:
I think
This kind of confirms my cynical position. If you can get in touch with
this guy and get a prompt response why can't these other people who have
paid good money for a good instrument even get the time of day from him
after years of trying?
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From: Allan Alexander
I hate to be the constant cynic but it is an easy thing for someone to be
positive, friendly and even accommodating when they have their hand out
waiting for the green to flow. However; when this positive, friendly and
even accommodating behavior is followed with dodging, equivocating, and a
Not wishing to condemn anyone without knowing all of the circumstances but
it seems to me if the man has time and resources in time to put up a new
first rate web site advertising instruments for sale, knowing that he may
not be able to complete those orders, or ignore some of them, or all of
It seems to me that there has been a good deal about Mr. Faria on this list
over the last year or two. Have you talked to him directly? I think (if I
am correct) you may get some additional responses.
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From: THOMAS GEORGI thomasgeo...@rogers.com
To:
To someone who plays the instrument (what ever that instrument might be)
things like picks, string tensions and string materials become important and
interesting questions. As of this day and age discussion over the quality
of reproduction Lutes, the way they are strung (octave or unison) and
With the exception of those Lutes(?) made in Pakistan I can remember only
Lutes being hand made one at a time by custom builders for individual
clients. Hopefully I am wrong but I do not think so.
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From: Mark Probert probe...@gmail.com
To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Because a good Lute by a master craftsman is more a work of art than the sum
total of a bunch of wooden elements shaped by hand and glued together. Most
who play the Lute can tell from the quality of the sound whether the Lute is
the work of skill and artistry or the product of some sort of
I find it, as a side bar, interesting that the one thing we think of as
being so perfect and without flaw is mathematics. If mathematics was so
flawless why is one of the most basic of concepts, that of pie, in itself an
imperfect number having no resolution this side of infinity? So it is no
We tend to think we have a monopoly on crude, lascivious behavior with our
on line porn, lose moral pop songs and television programs. Such is not the
case. This is not the first time we have run across female genital
references such and My Lady Hunsdon's Puff. There are those who believe
I get the dreaded 404 error message on you link. Can you post another?
Vance Wood.
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From: Keith Kilo Watt s...@keithwatt.org
To: Lute List lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 11:51 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Larry Brown 8c Lute for Sale
Hello everyone
I googled the afore mentioned instrument order taker and found that you are
not the only one. Check out the Classical Guitar forum, I think you will
find the results both disheartening and interesting. I can speak only for
myself but it would seem you are out the money so it is time for a bit
I too have been through this transition; the soft fingers after washing etc.
The next thing you have to concentrate on is striking both strings in a
course. If you are coming at the Lute by way of the Guitar you will have
the tendency to play the strings much the same way you played the
I find that it is important to keep the fingers and palm of the right
hand parallel to the strings as opposed to the heel of the hand being
parallel to the strings. This way the fingers are coming at the strings
down and in instead of across and up as in plucking the strings.
Sometimes the controversy and the uncertainty make for better reading than
the often boring truth. It makes the music more interesting as well; for
those looking for clues within styles and motives.
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From: Thomas Walker, Jr. twlute...@hotmail.com
To:
I may be looked on as wrong here, but here is something that might help you
get things sorted out in your head. Use the thumb and index finger in
almost the same way you would use a pick if you were playing a guitar with a
plectrum. The strong beat is played with a down stroke on the thumb
You may specialize and still have an interest in other instruments without
betraying your first love.
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From: Peter Martin peter.l...@gmail.com
To: Lute list lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 6:43 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Dilettantism
I've been
A piece of an old string (the reason you save your old strings) or a piece
of spare fret gut, or a piece of monofilament fishing line of appropriate
dimension. Tie end to end with a barrel knot, used in fishing. I suppose
there may be better methods but any port in a storm.
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Hi Omer:
In a pinch you can substitute monofilament fishing line of appropriate
gauge, 30 lbs test or better.
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From: Omer katzir [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lute-cs. dartmouth. edu lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 3:38 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Fret
I agree with the source filing. In order to make this meaningful however, I
think it will be necessary, and educational, to list the sources
chronologically. The oldest known sources listed first. This also begs the
question; is the earliest source the closest to the composers original
I cannot tell you how many books but if you are interested in obtaining some
of the music you might want to visit here.
http://www.lute.ru/mirrors/gerbode/ft2/composers/index.php?path=Galilei/
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From: andrei and [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent:
.
Vance Wood.
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From: Rob MacKillop [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: David Tayler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: lute-cs.dartmouth.edu lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2008 9:41 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Bach on the baroque lute
Igor is a moron.
There are moments when
I am sure you mean well but what does this have to do with the Lute and its
music?
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From: Rebecca Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 2:41 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Peace
October 29th, 2008
Dear Lutenists:
I suspect a couple of things on this issue that go toward the nature of
strings as it relates to sound and playing position. The concept, nature
and tension of strings from an historical view point has been discussed here
many times and at length. The only absolute that we can derive from
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From: vance wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: David Tayler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2008 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: Lute sound, esoteric or worldly?
That is I believe the key. It is the old emigration from the Guitar and
its single string
- Original Message -
From: vance wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mike Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 6:00 AM
Subject: Re: [LUTE] pre-newbie question
A capo will put you in the correct pitch but do little in giving you a feel
for the Lute. The Lute is double
I know that some think this not a good idea for Lute backs/bowls, deferring
instead to Yew. However history has shown that a variety of hard woods have
in the past been used for the bowl, understanding that the sound board is
the most critical portion of the Lute where type and quality of wood
Actually nothing until you realize that you are not sticking both strings in
the course. This is particularly apparent with a doubled first course when
you actually do manage to strike both strings, at least on my Lute, the
sound is significantly different. It is not so much bending backwards
I will offer my opinion on the right hand. I play a Lute with a doubled
first course. Having the ability to collapse the first joint of the digits
on the right hand is crucial in getting a proper sound out of the instrument
strung in this manner.
VW
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From: David
I find the technique invaluable in playing much of Milano's work.
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From: Ed Durbrow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Herbert Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED]; LuteNet list
lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2008 8:16 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Last joints that bend backwards.
From the configuration of the neck I would conclude that this might be an
Oud not a Lute.
- Original Message -
From: Robert Clair [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Lute List lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 3:39 PM
Subject: [LUTE] almost lute
Check out the cover of this week's
If I read you correctly you should be using a bar with the index finger when
the stops are on the same fret. You might want to pick up a copy of Variety
of Lute Lessons, a facsimile edition of a Lute primer from the sixteenth
Century, there is some information on both hands.
- Original
) uncomfortable.
Gary
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From: vance wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Lute List lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 3:54 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Kind of explanatiom?
In other words; I'm sorry I mentioned it but as long as I did let me add
a few more faggots
In other words; I'm sorry I mentioned it but as long as I did let me add a
few more faggots to the fire. Why don't you just stop? You have no idea
how many people you offend Arto.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008
Must have fallen off the wagon once more.
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From: Gernot Hilger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 7:03 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: OT: Torture and c-camps
Arto,
that was remarkably long since you posted something which is again
Interesting, encouraging, and better than a food fight but no Lutes?
- Original Message -
From: Daniel F Heiman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 2:10 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Extravaganza (OT)
The center part of the US tends to be an early music
I have a facsimile of the Pisador book around somewhere, I'll check the
notation. The problem may lay with schott and some guitarists that found it
was more musical/fun to play in triple time than duple. Your problem is in
assigning credibility to a second generation
Igor
I really find it difficult to understand why someone would make a big deal
out of this conversation, it's not like you don't know what the message is
about in your email in-box. The simple thing;--- use the delete button. If
you don't like the food don't order it from the menu--simple.
Dear Dr. Zakin:
You refer to Julian Bream as being The late Julian Bream. Could you
clarify this statement, has Julian Bream indeed died? I have heard nothing
on this issue neither can I find reference to his death on the Internet.
Thank you for your response.
Vance Wood
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On the base of it I would agree, but I find the delete button works as well
when a posting subject starts, then deteriorates to the point that I have
no interest in it. Occasionally I will look in, as I did here, and thus my
comment. Flame wars do nothing to advance our understanding of a
Humm?? Would that make a trombone player a tromboner? A piccolo player a
piccoloist or maybe a picolist might be better.
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From: Steve Bryson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lute list Lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Cc: Steve Bryson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:03
No one has mentioned, though I suppose some have noticed, it has metal
frets. Typical of Lutes before the advent of traditional historically
accurate instruments. When I went to Oakland University the school owned a
Rubio and it was a dog musically. This was in the mid 70's and apparently
No one can argue that this is not a beautiful instrument, and if Bream owned
it I am sure it has a wonderful sound, if not a bit Guitar like.
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From: David Rastall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: vance wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Lute List lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Monday
Ahhha, David:
You forget egos and music. You cannot separate the two and sometimes egos
show themselves in rude responses and --- no responses: I get that all the
time.
Vw
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From: David Rastall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Lute Net lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Sunday,
I agree, this is well done and pleasing to listen to. Thanks for posting
it.
VW
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From: Gernot Hilger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Roman Turovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Lutelist lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 6:09 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: bach and
Rob:
I have had carpal tunnel surgery and shoulder surgery. But before you do
anything do yourself and all of us a favor. Go to a doctor and have an emg
done as well as an ekg. Left arm problems often are indicative of heart
issues that can render the other problems moot. It's better to
. As for me, I am a bit of a purist. As to this performance; I seem
to be able to download only the first 23 seconds of it so I cannot form too
much of a critique.
Vance Wood.
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From: David Rastall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Lex Eisenhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: lute
From what I understand Dowland from early in hi career was criticized for
his poor counterpoint, his use of old style composition and old way of
playing. He spent his entire adult life trying to get employment in
Elizabeth I's court and so on. If he did indeed change he probably did so
Here is another thought: Maybe Dowland created the change in technique? If
not him who and from where? Do we know the answer to that question?
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From: Ed Durbrow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LuteNet list lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 9:52 AM
I know that this must be a bit off topic but beside the issue of accessing
the additional bases as a criteria for thumb out one has to ask why was
thumb in used in the first place, especially when you consider how the thumb
and second finger sometimes interfere with each other?
I will answer
, 2008, vance wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I know that this must be a bit off topic but beside the issue of
accessing
the additional bases as a criteria for thumb out one has to ask why was
thumb in used in the first place, especially when you consider how the
thumb
and second finger sometimes
Dowland suggests playing sweetly in Varietie. I think the sound must be
clean with no buzzing or rattling and even, between base and treble. If you
get that it does not matter how you got there. Regardless of what Guru
you invest your technique with, playing the Lute is still about the
If you read Dowland's comments on the subject, or maybe it was Besard, I do
not now remember exactly, the debate/transition was going on at the time and
the remark was made that the Thumb Under was not as elegant but
acceptable. It is not clear here if the elegant tag was because of sound
or
Not meaning to be rude, mean, or out of touch, but it seems to me the key is
to play really well and choose the material that will interest those who
came to listen. Maybe people leave after intermission because the playing
is too tedious.
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From: howard posner
So really it is more a head issue than a tactile one? Interesting but
understandable. I have always had problems playing something on someone
else's instruments right out of the gate. One has to get acquainted with
the Lute to play it, it seems to me.
vw
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From:
Sean: I understand, a six course instrument is the appropriate instrument
for the music you choose to play. But let us assume you also wished to play
Molinaro---not good fair for the six course instrument. I know one size
fits all is an awful choice given all of the subtleties of period
The Cambridge Manuscript seems to indicate that the latest Dowland of the
time was grouped together with F. DaMilano in the same book.
VW
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From: Wayne Cripps [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 10:00 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Re:
I don't think you can make that argument even though we do it. The We we
are discussing happen to be a group of Historically Correct Mavens that
look at the issues of historical correctness more closely than we look at
the practicality of the things at hand; like the number of strings on our
wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Lute List lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 4:46 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Is 8c really the standard?
On Nov 28, 2007, at 3:37 PM, vance wood wrote:
The We we are discussing happen to be a group of Historically
Correct Mavens that look at the issues
---but
not everyone can do that either. By the way I did not say they were
any good they simply suit my needs for now.
VW
- Original Message - From: David Rastall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: vance wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Lute List lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 4:46 PM
Subject
I know there is a lot of controversy surrounding the eight course Lute et
al, but from a modern stand-point, and a musician's probable limited income,
it is still the best choice for the student, and armature player, who wants
one instrument capable of playing a wide range of music with a
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From: vance wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Ed Durbrow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: Is 8c really the standard?
The only down side to that point of view is that occasionally you have to
re-tune the seventh course
Actually I would rather listen to the music. It seems the musician is
rather good and I would have liked to have heard him without the lecture
which I could not understand.
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From: Stewart McCoy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Lute Net lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Saturday,
Not meaning to be confrontational, but does anyone know of an historical
example of a single strung Archlute? My impression is that this is nothing
more than a Guitar like instrument with a lot of extra base strings shaped
like a Lute.
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From: Mathias Rösel [EMAIL
Thanks for sharing that link Roman, it's nice to be informed about something
I did not know existed.
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From: Roman Turovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Lute List lute@cs.dartmouth.edu; vance wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 9:47 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Re
Excellent summary Anthony. The iconography does in fact portray the thumb
over on an abundance of Lutes of six courses or less. The fact that Variety
of Lute Lessons does not mention it, that I recall, only shows that the
added number of strings dictated a change in technique. Unless you
How about a link?
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From: Tobias Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 4:12 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Hopkinson Smith on silence and lute playing
Dear Sirs,
I got a newsletter (#3) from the homepage of Hopkinson Smith the
You cannot argue with a Guitar player about fixed metal frets, especially if
their only exposure to the Lute is at a distance. They have to have first
hand experience with gut frets and the fineness of the sound before they
start to grasp the significance of them. Don't even try discussing
are hooked.
Vance Wood.
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From: Joshua E. Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 6:46 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Good morning everyone! - New person
Hi everyone!
-- I am new to the Lute Society of America general mailing list. My name
I assume you are using tablature? You must learn to play tablature or you
are cutting yourself off from 90% of the material available for the Lute,
most of which has never been transposed into staff notation.
Vance Wood.
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From: Joshua E. Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED
No, most necks are veneered to begin with, they are not made entirely of
solid hard wood as you might see on the surface. I am sure there are
exceptions to this but for the most part a solid hard wood neck would prove
to be too heavy in relation to the rest of the instrument. Most necks have
Roman; you are correct but there is one caveat, it takes a lifetime of
practice and training to become a competent archer and a couple of weeks to
learn to shoot an harquebus, if you don't blow your own head off first.
That one fact caused the doom of the military archer. You could line up
I can only give you an opinion understanding that I am not a Tennis player.
You are to a certain extent comparing apples and oranges. Gut for musical
instrument strings imparts a better tamber to the sound of the Lute, giving
it warm over-tones that nylon can not.
However; nylon strings are
If the strings have been on the instrument for a while one or the other of
the two strings may have become false because the pressure on the fret has
taken it out of round in that location. I would determine which of the two
is truly false then unhitch the string, turn it around and re-install
I could be really wrong, but not so far as to not be plausible; the Lute
player my have put together his/her own part. Not only is this possible it
is historical.
Vance Wood
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From: Alfonso Marin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lutelist Net lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
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