So what makes a lute? The main thing which confuses could be that if we/I am/are speaking of lutes I think of double-strung historical european instruments with a corpus in shape of a pear. Although I would count the Oud, Saz, Shamisen but also the mandolins and - yes - the Wandervogel"lute" among the family of instruments to which the european lute belongs, too, my imagination is limited in so far to see the Wandervogellute, the mandolin, the liuto forte and so on as related to the lute I am imagining with the term "lute". We already have had such discussions in connection to the Charango :-) Even H.Scherrer, who was a pioneer in lute-playing and a leading figure in the youth movement made a rather strong distinction to the "noble instrument of the lute".
Best wishes Thomas Am Samstag 18 März 2006 11:42 schrieb Mathias Rösel: > I'm tired of statements like this, I must say. It is a lute-lute-lute. A > wandervogel-lute, to be precise. There are models with six bass strings, > too. Here is a picture: > > http://www.reycarlos85.forum.ac/richedit/upload/2kf94ffe047b.jpg > > You might want to read about the origins in the recent issue of the > German Lute Society's bulletin Lauten-Info 4/2005, p. 14-20. Youcan find > there an article by lute-pioneer Hans Dagobert Bruger: "Herkunft und > Entwicklung der modernen (einchoerigen) Laute" (On Origins and > Development of the Modern, Single-Strung, Lute), reprint of: > Musikantengilde Nr. 2 (1926). Wandervogel lutes are proper lutes. Wonder > why some dark-sided pure-bloods >;) don't eventually stop sneering at > them. -- Thomas Schall Wiesentalstrasse 41 CH-8355 Aadorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++41 (0) 52 365 00 04 http://www.lautenist.de http://www.lautenist.de/bduo/ http://www.lautenist.de/gitarre/ http://www.tslaute.de/weiss/ To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
