I once hung my lutes on the walls of my study. Beautiful sight, nice smelling, easy grab and play and stuff. When I told my luthier, he'd almost kill me. It's a pity, but I complied to his informed advice, of course. Don't earn enough money so as to afford cracks. My farthing.
Mathias "howard posner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Sep 9, 2007, at 9:47 PM, Jim Abraham wrote: > > > I take lessons from Chris Henriksen in Boston, and all his lutes > > (and his > > wife's viols) are hanging on the walls of the music room. There's > > no way > > they all could be put in cases -- you'd need a room just for the > > cases. > > That's the first time I've ever heard someone suggest that keeping an > instrument out of its case saves space. Unless Chris and Carol have > no cases for their instruments, the cases have to take up space > somewhere, and they'll take up exactly the same amount of space with > the instruments inside them. Some of the handier lute players I know-- > Jim Lidgett and Bob Clair come to mind -- have rigged up floor-to- > ceiling shelf systems that can house a surprising number of > instruments in a surprisingly small space. > > > This room is de/humidified, and the instruments are hanging against > > tapestries rather than the bare wall. And nothing properly hung > > from a wall > > by someone not a total putz ever just spontaneously drops. > > I don't know where Stephen Gibson, who asked the original question, > lives, but there are places in the world where walls spontaneously > move. A Southern California native knows that you should never put > anything on a wall or a shelf that you wouldn't want falling on your > head when the ground shakes. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
