MO wrote: > You have to acquaint them with the music first. If they catch > the bug, they > would eventually graduate to the lute itself and learn to > read tablature. > Happened to most people here already this way, and it will > happen again. It > is not going to happen by posting facsimiles of lute > tablature for free > download.
I started to read tablature from the files at Wayne's site. But I still don't own a lute, so maybe you're right. But it may happen this way: 1. first you play the music on guitar, you fall in love with it, 2. then you realize it's for lute, 3. you find out it's originally written in tablature, 4. you find a few tablatures on the internet and you realize it's actually easier and more accurate to read this music in tablature than in staff notation. 5. you buy a lute. 6. you buy facsimiles or a modern editions in tablature. At least from places where there's no other way to access lute music, I think this is a possible scenario. Hernan Mouro. Conservatorio de Bahía Blanca, Argentina.
