Another aspect of Pat's teaching was keeping your shoulder muscles as relaxed
as possible, so that the upper left arm is basically hanging vertically (or
close to it). To the extent that you are supporting the weight of your upper
arm with your muscles, it reduces how much weight comes to bear
On t he other hand, if you looks at how Bob Barto holds the lute it’s quite
vertical, with him peeking over the soundboard to see his left hand. The
gravity method won’t work with your thumb off the lute, but you can practice
relaxing it, and thinking of your elbow pulled by gravity towards the
Great story.
On 08/16/2018 10:32 AM, Caroline Usher wrote:
Leonard,
If you rotate the lute along the axis of the strings so that the top edge of
the soundboard is somewhat closer to your body, the effect is to bring the
fingerboard a little closer to horizontal. That will help.
I remember
Leonard,
If you rotate the lute along the axis of the strings so that the top edge of
the soundboard is somewhat closer to your body, the effect is to bring the
fingerboard a little closer to horizontal. That will help.
I remember years ago having a long-distance phone conversation with Pat
Thanks! I'm workin' on it!
Leoanrd
-Original Message-
From: Caroline Usher
To: lutenet (lute@cs.dartmouth.edu)
Sent: Thu, Aug 16, 2018 1:32 pm
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Left hand technique
Leonard,
If you rotate the lute along the axis of the strings so that the
The Lute Society's recent Lutezine 126 contains about 27 pictures of
historic lute players, of whom about 0 are playing with a strap.
Should I simply throw away my new 'Capirola' lute strap, which arrived
in the post this week? It's very pretty, but if no-one ever used
Well yes I fear so!
Out of my searchable database of (now) 2060 images which I've been
collecting for years there are just 49 with a lute strap in use! And
most of those are archlutes or theorbos. I think this is indeed a
serious question.
An initial part of this database has been uploaded
Personally could never understand or tolerate a strap on any normal,
i.e., non-extended neck lute. Only necessary on tiny lutes (like wearing
a necktie!) or the big bad boys. My archlute- a rather small one- does
require the strap. But not my 68cm. 13 course bass rider d-minor lute.
Dan
On
I only play Renaissance lute and I don't use one, though I know
accomplished players who swear by them, as in "By my lutestrap!".
On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 6:43 PM, Dan Winheld <[1]dwinh...@lmi.net>
wrote:
Personally could never understand or tolerate a strap on any normal,
Hello,
more or less by chance I found out, that one of the Paris Weiss
manuscripts is online:
F-Pn Rés. Vma ms. 1213 (olim: Bibl. Mad. Thibault)
Weiss à Rome (= F-PnThI)
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10020231q
As always, the link also is also accessible through
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