Ciao Luca, the memory of what a lute might be, is especially vivid in the town where I live because of a famous tale bearing the town's name in it, that you will possibly know. The town is Bremen, and I'm speaking of the Bremen Town Musicians (Bremer Stadtmusikanten), i. e. a donkey, a dog, a cat and a cock. Remember the instrument that the donkey plays? Yepp, correct, that's it. >B)
In its established form, the tale was collected by Bros. Grimm, at a time when what are now considered HIP lutes were no more played. Instead, those ineffable, *coughs*, wandervogels were what people had in minds when they said "lute", because those were widely played. -- Best wishes, Mathias "Luca Manassero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Hi Mathias, > > I love this anwer... > > Last year I went to the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice with my > lute and group of boys asked me what I had in my case with that strange > shape. I said: "A renaissance lute". After a second I heard one of that > group whispering to somebody else "must be a wind instrument..." > I often experience that in Italy, especially in the so-called "art > cities" (Città d'arte) you lute pictures in every church, LOTS of them. > But nobody knwos what a lute is, anymore. In Germany, maybe thanks to > your Wandervoegel, if somedody asks you what you carry in your case and > you happen to answer "a lute", well, most of the time people knows. > > So sometimes it's better to let a "not so precise" simulation of an > instrument to survive, instead of being correctly purist, but have 100 > people in the whole country informed the lute... > > Ciao, > > Luca > > > Mathias Rösel on 28-10-2007 14:21 wrote: > > "Joshua E. Horn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > > >> How common are six string lutes like this one?: > >> > >> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute/Kay/lute12.jpg > >> > > > > Most members of the HIP community do not consider that instrument a > > lute. I'm notorious enough to dissent, so may I put it short. > > Yes, that kind of lute is widespread outside the HIP comm, e. g. where I > > live (Germany), and it is often heard in public at reenactment occasions > > and revival-medieval market places. There are even theorboed types (four > > or six extra bass strings), but not as widespread as the 6str type. > > > To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
