Yes, rock on! I'm actually more interested in the audience experience at this point and therefore use nylon. If I was only playing for very small groups (under 20) in very ambient spaces I'd probably switch to gut or have a lute only in gut for that purpose. But nylon is more dependable, louder and cheaper. There are better spaces to play in Europe, but many of the halls in America just swallow up the lute or are too large. To this end, I have almost perfected a new way to amplify the lute which requries no internal surgery and is not noticeable unless you are very close up. Oh, and it's wireless so I can jump off of my Marshall stack (it really is wireless)! I've also starting working on an arrangement of "Eruption" for 10c lute to Christen the new setup (seriously). Can you tell the cold weather is already getting to me?
- Chris --- gary digman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems to me whether something is musically worthwhile or not is largely > subjective, i.e. worthwhile to whom. > Hence, the question of whether to use gut or synthetics is a personal > decision and the question of validity is mute. Danyel likes gut and others > like synthetics for whatever reasons. Play on. > > Gary > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Howard Posner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "lutelist" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> > Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 8:03 AM > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Gastric distress (gut) > > > > gary digman wrote: > > > > > It occurs to me there may be a touch of irony in this concern with > > > being "historically correct", We're the artists whose aesthetic we are > > > trying to embody concerned about being historically correct? If not, > > > is not our concern for historical correctness unhistorical? > > > > Of course it's unhistorical. The question is whether it's musically > > worthwhile. "Historical correctness" is just a convenient but > > inaccurate shorthand for "an attempt to play the music as well as > > possible, which includes trying to understand (and, as nearly as is > > possible to determine, actually experience) how the people who created > > it would have expected it to sound." > > > > HP > > > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > > > > > > -- > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > > Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.12.5/150 - Release Date: 10/27/2005 > > > > > > > ------------------------------------- Christopher Schaub Lute & Voice web: http://www.christopherschaub.com email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
