It did enough to let me know
whether I wanted to pursue playing on a lute.
Probably yes
But a mentor who could have guided you ,and made some adjustments to
the instrument's action, might have meant that your lute playing
experience was agreable enough that you stayed with it.A better lute
would help of course, though it is possible to play beautiful music on
a cheap lute, provided that it is tunable and the action and string
spacing is ok.
I turned my 8-course into a 7-course and could play it with much more
ease. Certainly lute music is far nicer (for player and
listener)played with on a guitar, than with difficulty on a lute. I
think ther must be many, many guitarists who buy a lute and get so
frustrated by certain of its characteristics that they give up. I
almost did a few times
Tony
--- On Wed, 1/8/12, Toby <t...@tobiah.org> wrote:
From: Toby <t...@tobiah.org>
Subject: [LUTE] Re: My First Lute
To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Date: Wednesday, 1 August, 2012, 17:36
On 07/31/2012 03:25 PM, A.J. Padilla MD wrote:
> As I recall, over the years there have been several threads about the
> Pakistani lutes, all pretty much negative, essentially to the effect
that
> you need all new strings, have to change the action by altering the
> fingerboard and/or bridge and/or nut, and tolerate a thick,
poorly-made
> soundboard, they're ok.
That's all quite fair. I bought one from eBay years ago. It was
playable,
and made sound. It reminded me of one of those cheap ukuleles that you
can pick up at a gift shop in Hawaii. It did enough to let me know
whether I wanted to pursue playing on a lute. In the end I decided
to stick with a retuned classical guitar because I found it difficult
to go back and forth between the two, due to the great difference in
spacing between the strings.
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