saw 192837 wrote: > Have you ever played the mediaeval lute? > > Is it really plucked with a plectrum and not the fingers? > > Or do people use fingers as well? > > Are they all 5 courses (or supposed to be?) > > What kind of repetoire exists?
For some information on what is known/theorized see Coelho, Victor Anand, "An invitation to the fifteenth-century plectrum lute: the Pesaro Manuscript," in Coelho, ed. _Performance on Lute, Guitar, and Vihuela: Historical Practice and Modern Interpretation_, Caambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005 -- Stephen Fryer Lund Computer Services ************************************************** The more answers I find, the more questions I have ************************************************** To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
