[LUTE] Re: Lute sound, esoteric or worldly?
- Original Message - From: vance wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: David Tayler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2008 9:27 AM Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: Lute sound, esoteric or worldly? That is I believe the key. It is the old emigration from the Guitar and its single string configuration. Many starting on the Lute actually only play one string in a course and may not realize it for years. It takes a modification of technique from that used on the Guitar to play the Lute so that it sounds like it is supposed to. - Original Message - From: David Tayler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lute-cs.dartmouth.edu lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2008 4:35 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Lute sound, esoteric or worldly? I think it is also about one or two strings. Players who get a big round sound, which is neither soft nor weed whackery, hit two strings pretty consistently. One of the nice things about video is you can see the strings vibrate. dt To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.169 / Virus Database: 270.7.0/1683 - Release Date: 9/21/2008 10:10 AM
[LUTE] Re: Lute sound, esoteric or worldly?
in a way I have found that the aim to tone production among lutenists could perhaps be divided to two extremes: there are those very gentle players, who hardly touch their strings, and then there are those, who nearly beat the strings. I'm not a prof player, but I know both approaches. On a day when there's too much tension in my whole body, there's too much tension in my fingers, resulting in a somewhat banging and clashing sound. Not nice, but loud enough. Once I realize what I'm doing, I try to relax by concentrating on the RH finger tips. You know, that absolute beginner's exercise. Get a light grip to both strings of the course with your forefinger. Push the course toward the soundboard a bit, slightly letting bend the 1st (from the tip) knuckle. Then let go. Try to connect the parts of that movements into a whole. Do it once, in one touch. On a good day, all I have to do is to touch the strings in the described way, kinda tapping, and the sound is just there with only slightly less volume than the other way, notwithstanding thumb-in or thumb-out. Mind you, volume is not the first thing I want to get out of my lute. Mathias Esoteric and worldly players - do these words function in English? Anyhow you can easily categorize also the lute heroes this way, not to speak of us ordinals... I - as an ordinal - put myself to the latter category: I really try to make the strings sound. I am even ready to use tiny violence to the strings to make them vibrate, to make the body of the instrument resonate. Arto, I have no lute heroes.Youtube etc shows well enough that there are amazing players of plucked instruments from many cultures who can play a million notes a second. Just as an amateur, and in the way you have set the scene, I'm in the opposite camp to you. England is a small country with a lot of people in it and, unless you are rich, other people are not far away. Stuart But I also can appreciate the opposite attitude, the soft and gentle, perhaps philosophical touch. But to me lute really is of this world, means of my intentions, not so much some living history... Please, do not ask me to name, to which group I set any of our lute heroes! :-) Arto To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[LUTE] Re: Lute sound, esoteric or worldly?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear lutenists, in a way I have found that the aim to tone production among lutenists could perhaps be divided to two extremes: there are those very gentle players, who hardly touch their strings, and then there are those, who nearly beat the strings. Esoteric and worldly players - do these words function in English? Anyhow you can easily categorize also the lute heroes this way, not to speak of us ordinals... I - as an ordinal - put myself to the latter category: I really try to make the strings sound. I am even ready to use tiny violence to the strings to make them vibrate, to make the body of the instrument resonate. Arto, I have no lute heroes.Youtube etc shows well enough that there are amazing players of plucked instruments from many cultures who can play a million notes a second. Just as an amateur, and in the way you have set the scene, I'm in the opposite camp to you. England is a small country with a lot of people in it and, unless you are rich, other people are not far away. Stuart But I also can appreciate the opposite attitude, the soft and gentle, perhaps philosophical touch. But to me lute really is of this world, means of my intentions, not so much some living history... Please, do not ask me to name, to which group I set any of our lute heroes! :-) Arto To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.169 / Virus Database: 270.7.0/1680 - Release Date: 19/09/2008 08:25
