Dear Stewart,
Thank you for this. However you're mistaken in thinking it not important
wether the gut loop was from the 18thC.
The gut could, for example, have been put on anytime after the instrument's
last use as a Gallichon/Mandora; perhaps to hang it on a wall as a
Dear Eric, Stephen, and the rest of us 'under pain',
This is a most important topic!
It's easy to sum it up:
1. Pain is related with muscular tension and a bad posture.
2. It's easier to adopt a bad posture than to adopt a good one, for
whatever reason.
3. The differences between a bad and a
Dear Kenneth,
Many thanks for this - it looks very convincing. Especially interesting is
that it appears to be TWO ribbons each attached to DIFFERENT buttons on the
player's tunic - this ought to provide more stabilty than the single
ribbon/gut thoery. Just goes to show how important
Hmmm.. Tab may be hard to memorize (don't know - never tried), but music
isn't, lol. IMO, if you need to read to play in performance you don't know
the music and you might as well just program it into a sequencer (which
can read it much more accurately than you can).
Dear Stewart and list,
The
Hmmm.. Tab may be hard to memorize (don't know - never tried), but music
isn't, lol. IMO, if you need to read to play in performance you don't know
the music and you might as well just program it into a sequencer (which
can read it much more accurately than you can).
Lute music is not exactly
I have observed Hoppy Smith's changing manner for holding the lute over many
years and was unable to really use them until the most recent one:
He has an end button and has a short slip-knot cord on that which connects
to a single long (6-7 feet) broad ribbon. On end of the ribbon is tied
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Dear Stewart and list,
The quote from the Burwell lute Book brings up
another topic here:
performing lute music in concert by memory. I've
read the argument
that tablature is difficult to memorize...who knows?
Do you prefer to have the
The problem with Jordi is that he is notorius for supplying the musicians of
his groups (the ones that are not his immediate family) with scores at the
last minute, to assure that no participant would be prepared as well as the
man himself, so ho could never be upstaged.
RT
in the jordi
To all:
I had sent to a few members of this list a scanned image of a very
interesting 17th C. print etching by the artist Wenceslaus Hollar, a Bohemian
artist
who worked in London, of a young lutenist sitting very upright holding a
double headed lute which is attached by either a single
Another possible contributing factor to shoulder pain is strength (or lack
thereof). The shoulder joint depends in a big way on the muscles of the
rotator cuff to hold everything together. I had problems with shoulder pain
several years ago (computers again ...). The orthopedist eventually
Here is something else I would like to know if anyone has tried? Ti Chi? I
have found it to be a very good, but not aggressive, exercise that stretches
more than taxes joints and muscles.
Vance Wood.
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Dear Katherine
It is quite easy to play a typical six course lute standing up
without any sort of strap, but one needs to rethink the technique
used
I just read the Wikipedia article on the Alexander Technique.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_technique
Much of it reminded me learning to play music: relaxation,
indirect goals, overcoming bad habits, needing a teacher,
...
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Herbert wrote:
I just read the Wikipedia article on the Alexander Technique.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_technique
Much of it reminded me learning to play music: relaxation,
indirect goals, overcoming bad habits, needing a teacher,
...
I started to look into the Alexander
Dear All,
Long term readers of the list will have seen my
past mailings on lute playing and the Alexander Technique
so I will make this one short.
For many of us engaging in physical activities like playing
the lute can inadvertently involve excess muscle tension
and poor posture - both of these
Thanks for that Denys. I too follow AT with interest, though I have
no local practitioner to work with. I was fortunate to have a class
with
Jacob Heringman at an LSA seminar, a couple summers ago. It
was a great experience. Interestingly, I asked him about chronic pain
and he indicated that
Hi all,
I strongly agree with Roman of his comment below!
Arto
On Thu, 4 May 2006, Roman Turovsky wrote:
Hmmm.. Tab may be hard to memorize (don't know - never tried), but music
isn't, lol. IMO, if you need to read to play in performance you don't know
the music and you might as well
Martin Eastwell wrote:
The pictures show that left hand
technique in the 16th century was often very like that used by modern
folk and rock guitarists, with the neck cradled between the base of
the 1st finger and the thumb, and so supporting the neck without any
need for a strap.
The
I believe that left hand cradling does three things, two of them bad. One
it obviously holds the neck of the Lute steady which is better than having
it flop around all over the place because you have not found a way to secure
it any other way. Two: it is the worst possible habit to get into that
On May 4, 2006, at 5:03 PM, Howard Posner wrote:
The pictures show that painters' models held lutes that way. I'm not
sure what they tell us about actual players.
Absolutely. They were posing with the lute as a prop. In order to
be doing something, some of them would be portrayed tuning
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