I agree, Nick. I only suggested that there is some people playing in this way, but obviously the strap is a piece of comfort not negligible and, for the lute, essential. After read all the postings I'm completely convinced. What about a thin tape of leather surrounding the top contour -glued- to avoid the lute sliding when played sitting? I saw this "feature" in some lutes. Do you know something about that? Thanks all the people,
Juan Fco. 2006/5/3, Nick Gravestock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Playing the guitar like this is not so difficult if just strumming as the > waist of the guitar sits nicely on the right hip bone. I have used it > myself > this way. However, the shape of the lute does not commend itself to this > method! > Nick > > -----Original Message----- > From: Juan Fco. Prieto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 02 May 2006 18:03 > To: Katherine Davies; lutelist > Subject: [LUTE] Re: lute straps > > Believe or not, Katherine, even today there is some Spanish flamenco > guitarists that play guitar standing up without any strap (rather for > playing while singing). I used renaissance lute in this way, but I must to > recognise that the strap is more confortable... but not indispensable. I > have strap button since one month only. The instrument is sustained with a > mix of left hand palm, right forearm, belly [ more efficiently on fat > people, stop your diet immediately :-)) ] or chest and, in case of lute, > pinkie right finger. You can see to play guitar like this, for example, > the > famous Spanish guitar and voice duo "Los del R=EDo", authors of the famous > "Macarena" song. Well, that seems a little off-topic. Excuse me. > Greetings, > > Juan Fco. > > > 2006/5/2, Katherine Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > There are lots of renaissance pictures of people > > playing lutes while standing up without any sign of a > > strap. Does anyone do this? Any ideas on how - or if - > > it could be done? > > > > I'm not having a go at strap-users; I'm just a bit > > puzzled - I have enough trouble keeping the thing in > > place when I'm sitting down. > > > > thanks, > > Katherine Davies > > > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > > > > -- > Juan Fco. > > -- > > > -- Juan Fco. --
