Dear Stewart,
The business of holding lutes with straps/ gut loops was aired about a year
ago and you'll no doubt find the communications in the archives.
At the time I was particularly interested in the gut loop option since, in
the late 70s, I had done some restoration work on a
Sorry but I gotta weigh in with an anecdote. In the late sixties I was a
music major at the University of Texas and was desperately trying to play
cello in the school orchestra. Bloody awful but I was game. Anyway, a friend
(a rather good oboe player who often gigged with the Dallas Symphony)
intr
I think this is the article:
Robert Spencer 'How to Hold a Lute: Historical
Evidence from Paintings', Early Music, Vol. 3, No. 4.
(Oct., 1975), pp. 352-354.
Thanks to everyone who has replied with such useful
information!
Katherine Davies
--- Luca Manassero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Very
Very, very interesting. Could you please find the reference to this
article in Early Music?
Thank you,
Luca
Stewart McCoy on 02/05/2006 18.43 wrote:
> Dear Craig and Katherine,
>
> An alternative to using a strap, which was used in the 17th Century,
> is to tie a gut string between two pegs on
Hi,
There was a system where a string went between the lute's body and the
player's body, ie on the side of the ribs, and tied to the lute on two
buttons, one where usual, the other on the opposite side. This string
was used to 'hang' the instrument from one of the buttons belonging to
the p
Dear Craig and Katherine,
An alternative to using a strap, which was used in the 17th Century,
is to tie a gut string between two pegs on the body of the
instrument. One peg is where you'd expect to see a peg, i.e. in the
middle of the end clasp; the other peg is fixed through the middle
rib just
Believe or not, Katherine, even today there is some Spanish flamenco
guitarists that play guitar standing up without any strap (rather for
playing while singing). I used renaissance lute in this way, but I must to
recognise that the strap is more confortable... but not indispensable. I
have strap b
in the 1st part of joseph baldassare's "playing the
lute in medieval europe" article (lute news 69 - 2004)
he states:
"... predominating evidence shows late-medieval
european luters standing without a strap on their
lutes. this is especially true prior to the 15th
cent. in the 15th cent., iconog
I would imagine he uses a "thumb [6 feet] under" technique here.
Ed Durbrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was surprised to learn Pat O'Brien has been playing with Cannibal
Corpse since 1997.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibal_Corpse
:-)
Ed Durbrow
Saitama, Japan
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http
Vance, David,
This is a serious list. Please keep the levity to a minimum. ;^)
Concerning straps, there was often a taught string that went from the end
button to another button close to the neck joint on the bowl. This could be
attached to a clasp on one's shirt. Of course it wou
I was surprised to learn Pat O'Brien has been playing with Cannibal
Corpse since 1997.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibal_Corpse
:-)
Ed Durbrow
Saitama, Japan
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http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/
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You are a funny man David. Levitateing Lutes, whoever heard of such a
thing-would that be the original Air Lute? I'm sorry I just couldn't
resist this one.
Vance Wood.
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From: "David Rastall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 02,
On May 2, 2006, at 11:18 AM, Craig Allen wrote:
> I"ve tried playing the lute standing up without a strap and it's
> very difficult for me. So I prefer to sit with a piece of suede
> across my knee to keep the lute from slipping.
Me too. I find it difficult to play standing up, in fact I even
LGS-Europe écrit:
>Some time ago I sent one of you (David Rastall?) a short article I wrote
>about Charles V and Mille Regres. I am recovering from a serious loss of
>data (physical HD-crash without backup) and would appreciate it to receive a
>copy of the article. I'll post it on my website, perha
Katherine Davies wrote:
>
>There are lots of renaissance pictures of people
>playing lutes while standing up without any sign of a
>strap. Does anyone do this? Any ideas on how - or if -
>it could be done?
>
>I'm not having a go at strap-users; I'm just a bit
>puzzled - I have enough trouble keepi
There are lots of renaissance pictures of people
playing lutes while standing up without any sign of a
strap. Does anyone do this? Any ideas on how - or if -
it could be done?
I'm not having a go at strap-users; I'm just a bit
puzzled - I have enough trouble keeping the thing in
place when I'm si
Dear Manolo and All:
It's very easy to play renaissance guitar music on the six-course lute. Just
pretend there is no first string and no sixth course. One plus is that high
first-string positions can be played in a lower position on the otherwise
unused top string.
Cheers,
Jim
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like you, i hadn't been following the thread - my
inability to access most video formats being the
reason. i have a fear (irrational, probably) of
picking up windows related viruses from windows
related software - i don't know how relevant that is
with a mac os x operating system - but irrational
Dear friends,
this was posted on the recorder group.
just for fun...
regards,
Manolo Laguillo
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I haven't been following this thread, except to skim the messages as
I delete them. However I did watch one of the videos (and I thought
it was pretty good considering the points Alain V made about the
difficulty of doing videos) using my iMac. So I was wondering what
Bill's problem with th
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