Mace actually warns of the dangers of plopping down carelessly on a
bed with a lute in it, remarking that he has seen several lutes
"spoil'd with such a trick" or words to that effect. I used to have
the passage glued to my lute case, but that was a couple of decades
and a couple of baroque lutes ago.
BTW, Mace actually warned that between the sheets was "moist with
sweat, etc." I always found the "etc." evocative.
On Nov 2, 2008, at 4:16 AM, Anthony Hind wrote:
Le 2 nov. 08 à 12:52, Nigel Solomon a écrit :
Rob MacKillop wrote:
Other break-in methods include buying it a present on its
birthday,
setting a place for it at the dinner table, tying tinsel on it at
Christmas, and, yes, allowing it to sleep with you when it is
feeling
low.
Talking of which I heard that Garbiel Garrido (south american
recorder and former lute player) was playing his lute sitting up
in bed, suddenly felt tired, lay the lute beside the bed, forgot
it and put his foot through it when he got up next morning. Moral:
lutes and beds are a bad combination
Nigel
And yet, from taking care of your lute, by Jiri Cepelak
http://tinyurl.com/6gnua8
On the dangers of high humidity for a lute, Mace's solution, put it
to bed:
"Thomas Mace obviously suffered from the same problem of high
humidity.
In his book ‘Musick’s Monument’ (1676), he recommends keeping your
lute in a bed.
And that you may know how to shelter your Lute, in the worst of Ill
weathers,
(which is moist) you shall do well, ever when you lay it by in the
day-time, to
put It into a Bed, that is constantly used, between the Rug and
Blanket; but
never between the Sheets, because they may be moist with sweat…
Thomas Mace, ‘Musick’s Monument’, 1676"
Anthony
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