Sorry Martin, I can only recall that I did read it in a friend's copy many years ago. Although I don't have an eidetic memory (I have the other kind) it did strike me very strongly. I hope someone else on the list can jump in, verify my recollection and pin down the quote.
The most spectacular non-seated performance by a real musician on a plucked, fretted instrument was a performance I once witnessed at the old Yoshi's restaurant & Jazz club in Oakland, CA. An elderly blues virtuoso (forget his name- idiotic memory working as normal) had a wireless solid body electric. After some normal hopping around, he exited the front door of the club, walked around the parking lot, came in through the back door from the kitchen, still playing in synch with the rest of the band, and proceeded to do front and back rolls- somersaults- guitar in hands and playing all the while. Breathtakingly agile, coordinated, and musical too; reminded me of martial arts training (much younger) where we did front rolls holding wooden staffs and feeling good if we could roll and come up staff in hand without dropping it or impaling ourselves. Didn't some of the French players run a string from a peg at the base of the lute to the peg near the neck/body joint where one might also anchor the 10th fret, if tied, to hook onto a coat button for standing play? >Dear Dan, > >Can you give us a page reference? I don't remember this bit. > >But it really strikes a chord with me - if I play the (6c) lute >standing, and improvising, I find myself wandering round the room! >I wonder why? > >Mark Wheeler does some nifty sprinting from one side of the stage to >the other, but I guess he's just trying to present a moving target >(sorry Mark, couldn't resist...). >> >>Thomas Mace, Musicke's Monument. He extolls the wonderful >>advantages of playing not just while standing, but walking around. >>Says it frees the mind for improvising. And why limit lute playing >>to just standing, walking, or even running? I hope Roman doesn't >>mind my posting this from his website: -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
