Most lutenists use a strap and I'm sure that you will get many responses/suggestions etc. We may even have a return to the discussion of using tables to support the lute and amplify the sound :-)
Regards Neil -----Original Message----- From: Greg Fleming [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 February 2008 15:04 To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: [LUTE] Strap buttons - Was: contributions to this list Rob wrote: > I would like to read/hear more from beginners... > > So I call on all those lurkers who are even too shy to contribute > emails, let us know what you are up to, ask questions. I have many > questions of my own - the subject is too large for one person to know > everything. > Ok, I'll bite. I bought my first lute a few months ago, a used 7c by John Underwood. (I'm not at home at the moment, so I might have that name wrong...) I'm finding that my initial difficulty in finding a comfortable position to hold the instrument has decreased, but not gone away completely, so I'm thinking about having strap buttons added and playing with a strap. In thinking about this, I have spent some time on the internet trying to find out whether there is any evidence of strap buttons on 16th or early 17th century lutes, and I'm coming up empty. I haven't been able to find any discussion of the subject at all, let alone a conclusion one way or the other. Either I just don't know the right terms to search with, or, more likely, it's such common knowledge that no one has bothered to write it down anywhere that google knows about. At this point, I've more or less decided to have strap buttons added regardless of authenticity, but my curiosity remains unsatisfied. Can anyone here shed some light on the subject? thanks, Greg Fleming To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
