Re: Virtue/lute

2004-01-09 Thread Jon Murphy
, is usually overlooked. Best wishes, Stewart. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 12:27 PM Subject: Virtue/lute Recently there was a discussion, which I glanced at, about lute music/virtue. I have in the last days discovered yet

Re: Virtue/lute

2004-01-09 Thread Jon Murphy
I can't disagree with Tom Beck, as we all have different bodies, and different ages, and different aches and pains. Nor can I suggest that his winter in the UK has been an easy one. But perhaps we each have different reactions to our local environments, and to the relatively fixed positions we

Virtue/lute

2004-01-08 Thread RichardTomBeck
Recently there was a discussion, which I glanced at, about lute music/virtue. I have in the last days discovered yet another virtue of the lute. This winter in the UK has been horribly damp and I've gone and got a touch of lumbago (shot in the back by a witch, as the Germans say). And the only

Re: Virtue/lute

2004-01-08 Thread timothy motz
of the lute, angle of the left arm, position of the left thumb, etc., all make a difference in both my playing and my comfort. Tim Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Virtue/lute Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 07:33:07 EST In a message dated 1/8/04 7:28:08 AM

Re: Virtue/lute

2004-01-08 Thread Manolo Laguillo
It's funny: exactly yesterday I sat with the lute, just by chance, on a sort of feetrest I have in front of my couch. It has a slight slope, more or less the same which the cushion described by Kenneth Be has. That moderate slope and the height makes a nice place to sit when playing. BTW,