Have you ever played the mediaeval lute?
Is it really plucked with a plectrum and not the fingers?
Or do people use fingers as well?
Are they all 5 courses (or supposed to be?)
What kind of repetoire exists?
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From: "saw 192837" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 6:43 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Who wants to go Medieval?
> Have you ever played the mediaeval lute?
no, none are extant, but I have played reconstructions.
>
> Is it really plucked with a ple
saw 192837 wrote:
> Have you ever played the mediaeval lute?
>
> Is it really plucked with a plectrum and not the fingers?
>
> Or do people use fingers as well?
>
> Are they all 5 courses (or supposed to be?)
>
> What kind of repetoire exists?
For some information on what is known/theorized s
Hello,
I already have the book. Excellent relationship quality-price for its 528 pages
and a pleasant surprise: The book incuye a CD with 81 songs, but ... any
tablature in the book!
Some songs are sung to capella", but in most it plays as only accompanying Paul
O'Dette.
The question
I got to try an actual, real-live lute the other day at my teacher's. It was
great. I was especially surprised at how light the tension was, compared to
my classical guitar. Is that because of gut stringing (actually, I'm only
assuming it was strung in gut), or are lutes simply at lower tension? Do
I recently played a medieval program on renaissance lute and vihuela (in
lack of a real medieval lute). I don't think this is a problem because
the medieval repertoire is somewhat obscure. There are several more or
less serious approaches to medieval lute playing - all worth discussing!
But it stil
Lutes, at least Renniasance Lutes, are very low tension, even with nylon. I
cannot afford Gut so I can only attest to the performance of Nylon.
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From: "jim abraham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Lute Net"
Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 8:58 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Tension of Gu
Dear Lucas, It has been a while since I last
contacted you but I thought I would tell you what I
have been up to lately. After receiving my theorbo
last December I set to work on learning Kapspurger's
Arpeggiata and a few other pieces. It took a few
months, but I managed to get used to the instrum
I've used both. You're correct: gut doesn't handle the kind of tensions used
with modern classical guitars. When strung at similar tensions, gut and nylon
sound similar, so most folks who use nylon string them at tensions much like
you would use with gut. Nylon is less dense than gut and has a b
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From: jim abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, October 16, 2005 4:58 pm
Subject: [LUTE] Tension of Gut vs. Nylon
> I got to try an actual, real-live lute the other day at my
> teacher's. It was
> great. I was especially surprised at how light the tension was,
>
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From: guy_and_liz Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, October 16, 2005 6:35 pm
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Tension of Gut vs. Nylon
> If you tried stringing most lutes at classical guitar tension,
> they'd probably fail at either the bridge or the neck/body joint.
> They
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From: EUGENE BRAIG IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, October 16, 2005 6:41 pm
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Tension of Gut vs. Nylon
> Gut is denser than nylon so, at constant pitch and
> diameter, will have less tension than gut.
Oops. That should have read "Gut is dens
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