I once hung my lutes on the walls of my study. Beautiful sight, nice
smelling, easy grab and play and stuff. When I told my luthier, he'd
almost kill me. It's a pity, but I complied to his informed advice, of
course. Don't earn enough money so as to afford cracks. My farthing.
Mathias
howard
Someone should tell Hoppy - there is a photo in one of his French 11c
recordings, if I remember correctly, which has him surrounded by instruments
on a wall, presumably his own.
Rob
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From: Mathias Rösel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 10 September
Apparently the new Grove dictionary states that there are nearly 60,000 lute
pieces still extant. That's a lot! Is there an inventory somewhere, or at
least a rationalisation of the estimate?
P
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Some of the handier lute players I know-- Jim Lidgett and Bob
Clair come to mind -- have rigged up floor-to-ceiling shelf systems
that can house a surprising number of instruments in a surprisingly
small space.
Metro brand wire shelving (home version of the shelving found in some
of
I don't know where Stephen Gibson, who asked the original question,
lives, but there are places in the world where walls spontaneously
move. A Southern California native knows that you should never put
anything on a wall or a shelf that you wouldn't want falling on your
head when the ground
Good suggestions. Thank you, Bob.
Stephen
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From: Robert Clair [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 8:30 AM
To: Lute List
Subject: [LUTE] Lute Storage (was Re: hang 'em high)
Some of the handier lute players I know-- Jim Lidgett and Bob
De-lurking again to ask what may seem like a dumb question, but I'm
an outsider who wants to learn things. Have lutes always cases, if
not when did they make their appearance?
Karen Hore
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That's the first time I've ever heard someone suggest that keeping an
instrument out of its case saves space. Unless Chris and Carol have
no cases for their instruments, the cases have to take up space
somewhere, and they'll take up exactly the same amount of space with
the instruments
On Sep 10, 2007, at 9:28 AM, Stephen W. Gibson wrote:
the cases have to take up space
somewhere, and they'll take up exactly the same amount of space with
the instruments inside them.
The same sort of argument applies to humidity: the air in the case
is the same as that in the room outside
Actually, David, I didn't write that. Another contributor did. But your
point is very well taken, unless, of course, the case contains one of those
little humidifiers you soak in H2O.
Does anyone recommend them?
_
From: David Rastall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday,
Dear Karen,
Lute cases have been around for a long time. There is an example in the
paintings of the Master of the Female Half Lengths:
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/master_of_female_half-lengths.html
Click on
Liechtenstein Museum
and it's the fourth picture down:
It is interesting
David et al.
Holding an instrument and breathing on it humidifies them a little, placing
that instrument in a relatively airtight case helps hold moisture. I keep a
few older lutes hanging on the wall de-strung for decoration, but my playing
lutes I keep in the case with a humidity gauge and a
On Sep 10, 2007, at 7:02 AM, David Rastall wrote:
The same sort of argument applies to humidity: the air in the case
is the same as that in the room outside it. So hanging the lute on
the wall does not necessarily expose the lute to more or less
humidity than it it would get in its case.
Stewart McCoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
There is an example in the
paintings of the Master of the Female Half Lengths:
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/master_of_female_half-lengths.html
Click on
Liechtenstein Museum
and it's the fourth picture down:
David van Edwards has
Doesn't case storage increase the danger of mold/mildew? I'm curious about
this issue because we are new to lute, but have always been instructed to store
our dulcimers out of the cases to discourage mold growth. And the harps sit out
with only a dust cover. So far the lute has stayed in it's
On Sep 10, 2007, at 1:13 PM, marigold castle wrote:
Doesn't case storage increase the danger of mold/mildew?
Not if you take the instrument out and play it often.
David R
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Andrew Hartig wrote:
Does anyone know of lute or consort setting (or other setting?) of a
Green's Almain?
I have not found anything in my database.
However, there is a Richard Grene mentioned in the Willoughby lute book.
Gre[e]ne was a servant of Sir Francis.
Maybe it should be Queen's
Not necessarily so. When I keep my gut strung lutes vihuela in the care,
I open the lid, the tuning is usually very close to being right
on. But, if I leave a gut strung lute out of the case, when I get to it,
it is usually way pitch, tuning wide. So, in the case, the environment is
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