One very good excercise to break in a lute is to hold the lute in
your lap with the soundboard facing the ceiling (if you have one).
Start by plucking a very slow but firm rest stroke on the second
course till you get one bell like, clean sound. Use the index finger,
pulling towards you. Adjust
FWIW, it took my swan neck _years_ to break in.
Mathias
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Somebody on the French lute site mentioned recently that Paul
O'Dette plays every position on every string (i.e. working up and
down the neck) repeatedl
Thanks Nigel. I hope your new lute is breaking-in well.
Best wishes
Anthony
Le 30 oct. 08 à 12:26, Nigel Solomon a écrit :
Anthony Hind wrote:
Dear Lutists (or should I say lutenists?°
I apologize for replying to my own message, but
early this morning, I realized that a "rec
Anthony Hind wrote:
Dear Lutists (or should I say lutenists?°
I apologize for replying to my own message, but early
this morning, I realized that a "recipe" from Benjamin Narvey for
speeding up and improving the "breaking-in" of a lute, does imply
that this process is, in som
