[LUTE] Re: How Common

2007-10-29 Thread Mathias Rösel
Roman Turovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: That was not the only lute-donkey relationship on record. Let's not forget this: http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm144.html Beautiful, didn't know it. Any idea how come this steady connection between donkeys and lutes? -- Best, Mathias the memory

[LUTE] Re: How Common

2007-10-29 Thread Roman Turovsky
Well, the lute is the symbol of domestic happiness in the renaissance/baroque symbolism, and the donkey could possibly signify virility. RT Roman Turovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: That was not the only lute-donkey relationship on record. Let's not forget this:

[LUTE] Re: How Common

2007-10-29 Thread wolfgang wiehe
] An: Lutelist lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Betreff: [LUTE] Re: How Common Roman Turovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: That was not the only lute-donkey relationship on record. Let's not forget this: http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm144.html Beautiful, didn't know it. Any idea how come this steady

[LUTE] Re: How Common

2007-10-29 Thread wolfgang wiehe
] An: Lutelist lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Betreff: [LUTE] Re: How Common Roman Turovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: That was not the only lute-donkey relationship on record. Let's not forget this: http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm144.html Beautiful, didn't know it. Any idea how come this steady

[LUTE] Re: How Common

2007-10-28 Thread Joshua E. Horn
Thats what I was thinking -- Joshua E. Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - IMAP accessible web-mail To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: How Common

2007-10-28 Thread Ed Durbrow
On Oct 28, 2007, at 8:34 PM, Joshua E. Horn wrote: How common are six string lutes like this one?: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute/Kay/lute12.jpg That is not what we generally refer to as a historical lute. It looks like a guitar-lute or lutar, if you will: metal frets and six

[LUTE] Re: How Common

2007-10-28 Thread Joshua E. Horn
I figured so, looks old, not maybe as old as REALLY old Lute but like 1800s. -- Joshua E. Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Send your email first class To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: How Common

2007-10-28 Thread Mathias Rösel
Joshua E. Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: How common are six string lutes like this one?: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute/Kay/lute12.jpg Most members of the HIP community do not consider that instrument a lute. I'm notorious enough to dissent, so may I put it short. Yes, that kind of

[LUTE] Re: How Common

2007-10-28 Thread Luca Manassero
Hi Mathias, I love this anwer... Last year I went to the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice with my lute and group of boys asked me what I had in my case with that strange shape. I said: A renaissance lute. After a second I heard one of that group whispering to somebody else must be a

[LUTE] Re: How Common

2007-10-28 Thread Sean Smith
Dear Joshua, My father bought one in Montreal long before I was born. I remember when I was seven or so really wanting to play it when I grew up. I took a few classical guitar lessons on it in high school but it never really projected and the spacing was pretty tight though I got used to it.

[LUTE] Re: How Common

2007-10-28 Thread David Tayler
I love it that it lives next to the heating vent. dt At 04:15 AM 10/28/2007, you wrote: On Oct 28, 2007, at 8:34 PM, Joshua E. Horn wrote: How common are six string lutes like this one?: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute/Kay/lute12.jpg That is not what we generally refer to as a

[LUTE] Re: How Common

2007-10-28 Thread Roman Turovsky
That was not the only lute-donkey relationship on record. Let's not forget this: http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm144.html RT the memory of what a lute might be, is especially vivid in the town where I live because of a famous tale bearing the town's name in it, that you will possibly know. The