[LUTE] Re: lute-straps

2007-06-10 Thread Jarosław Lipski
Yes, very nice indeed. This is what I was looking for. Thank you Anthony! Jaroslaw -Original Message- From: Anthony Hind [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 1:20 PM To: Lute Net Subject: [LUTE] lute-straps Dear All In a previous message I mentioned that here in

[LUTE] Re: lute straps

2006-08-24 Thread Ed Durbrow
On May 4, 2006, at 12:11 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question: Wouldn't hanging your lute from a button scratch the heck out of the back of your instrument? Even if it doesn't move around alot, I would think the finish at the contact point would get very worn. I would

[LUTE] Re: lute straps

2006-08-24 Thread David Rastall
On Aug 24, 2006, at 5:19 AM, Jason Ferry wrote: I would like to know from lutenists who use straps for your instruments where you get them from. Do you use generic guitar straps, or make your own, or is there a supplier of straps that are specific to the lute? Also, from you experience are

[LUTE] Re: lute straps

2006-08-24 Thread chriswilke
Ed, Wow, this is from a while ago. Anyway, my interpretation of the hanging from a button technique was that there was a very taught piece of gut stretched across the actual surface of the back of the lute, which then sat on a button from your coat. Maybe I'm completely wrong about

[LUTE] Re: lute straps

2006-08-24 Thread Rob Dorsey
Chris et al, I'm going to take a chance and cut to the chase. All arcane and archaic solutions aside, a good and wide guitar strap hanging from proper strap buttons at the end cap and under the extreme forward end of the body is a most secure and comfortable solution. I've tried lap chamois,

[LUTE] Re: lute straps

2006-08-24 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
At 10:38 AM 8/24/2006, Rob Dorsey wrote: I'm going to take a chance and cut to the chase. All arcane and archaic solutions aside, a good and wide guitar strap hanging from proper strap buttons at the end cap and under the extreme forward end of the body is a most secure and comfortable solution.

[LUTE] Re: lute straps

2006-08-24 Thread Sean Smith
Jason, I decided to try a strap at Paul Beier's suggestion. I went to a few Goodwill stores in the area and finally found a 1.75 (40mm) wide black lightweight leather belt. I cut the ends and put one large hole w/ a slit in it to snugly go over the peg. I put two holes in the other to run a

[LUTE] Re: lute straps

2006-08-24 Thread David Rastall
On Aug 24, 2006, at 11:21 AM, Bernd Haegemann wrote: A very good and romantic method is stealing it from a teacher. I did it during a summer school in the Tchech republic. A very wonderful teacher (and player) gave me her strap to try it for some days, I went home without returning it to

[LUTE] Re: lute straps

2006-08-24 Thread Peter W Jones
Message - From: Peter W Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 6:07 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: lute straps Be prepared for a rather baffling description: For my 8-course lute, I use just a longish length of broad ribbon which I bought for about 50p

[LUTE] Re: lute straps

2006-08-24 Thread Edward Martin
I sometimes use a very satin like ribbon. Works very well. ed At 03:29 PM 8/24/2006 +0200, Luca Manassero wrote: I do the same... A nice silk strap in whatever color I can find. And I sit on the tail of it, as Hopkinson Smith does. It greatly help stability. Luca Wayne Cripps on 24/08/2006

[LUTE] Re: lute straps (genuinely about straps and lutes)

2006-05-07 Thread bill kilpatrick
--- guy_and_liz Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A lot of folks, myself included, attach their straps like that, and this is the first I've heard of anyone having any problems with the neck joint. From: bill kilpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lute net lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: [LUTE] Re: lute

[LUTE] Re: lute straps (genuinely about straps and lutes)

2006-05-07 Thread Vance Wood
, May 06, 2006 6:32 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: lute straps (genuinely about straps and lutes) A lot of folks, myself included, attach their straps like that, and this is the first I've heard of anyone having any problems with the neck joint. From: bill kilpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lute net

[LUTE] Re: lute straps (genuinely about straps and lutes)

2006-05-07 Thread bill kilpatrick
6:32 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: lute straps (genuinely about straps and lutes) A lot of folks, myself included, attach their straps like that, and this is the first I've heard of anyone having any problems with the neck joint. From: bill kilpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lute net

[LUTE] Re: lute straps

2006-05-06 Thread Denys Stephens
instrument, it's well worth experimenting with. Best wishes, Denys - Original Message - From: Martin Eastwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Vance Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lute list lute@cs.dartmouth.edu; Howard Posner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 10:15 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re

[LUTE] Re: lute straps (genuinely about straps and lutes)

2006-05-06 Thread bill kilpatrick
i screwed one of those strap pegs into the butt end of my oud, made a leather strap with leather thong to attach it to the peg box and i have to say it looked ok - comfortable too - but i just pulled it all off again. the weakest point on an oud - i presume it's also for a lute - is where the

[LUTE] Re: lute straps (genuinely about straps and lutes)

2006-05-06 Thread guy_and_liz Smith
A lot of folks, myself included, attach their straps like that, and this is the first I've heard of anyone having any problems with the neck joint. From: bill kilpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lute net lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: [LUTE] Re: lute straps (genuinely about straps and lutes) Date

[LUTE] Re: Lute straps

2006-05-05 Thread Doctor Oakroot
I suspect his other 4-5 Haydn sonata (sightread) would have been just as mediocre as sightread music usually is. 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

[LUTE] Re: Lute straps

2006-05-05 Thread Roman Turovsky
HAs it ever occurred to you that all orchestral (and most small-ensemble) music is sightread, always? And all them mediocre blues are played from memory, ain't they? RT I suspect his other 4-5 Haydn sonata (sightread) would have been just as mediocre as sightread music usually is. Hi all,

[LUTE] Re: Lute straps

2006-05-05 Thread Doctor Oakroot
In an orchestra the players are acting as a sequencer and their job is to reproduce the written music accurately. The musical value comes from the conductor - who usually has the score in front of him, but, if he's any good, he doesn't actually need it. That's why experiments with conductorless

[LUTE] Re: Lute straps

2006-05-05 Thread David Rastall
On May 5, 2006, at 8:50 AM, Roman Turovsky wrote: HAs it ever occurred to you that all orchestral (and most small- ensemble) music is sightread, always? Good point, but the job of an orchestral player is not to be an interpreter, but rather to be a part of a larger whole. The conductor

[LUTE] Re: Lute straps

2006-05-05 Thread Roman Turovsky
HAs it ever occurred to you that all orchestral (and most small- ensemble) music is sightread, always? Good point, but the job of an orchestral player is not to be an interpreter, but rather to be a part of a larger whole. The conductor is the one who is allowed to interpret the music. Not

[LUTE] Re: Lute straps

2006-05-05 Thread Roman Turovsky
In an orchestra the players are acting as a sequencer and their job is to reproduce the written music accurately. The musical value comes from the conductor - who usually has the score in front of him, but, if he's any good, he doesn't actually need it. That's why experiments with

[LUTE] Re: lute straps

2006-05-05 Thread Martin Eastwell
Vance- I wonder if you have seriously experimented with playing this this way? If you can stand big downloads, I will happily turn an old recording of me playing F Da Milano (Ness 33) with just such a technique, into an MP3, and send it to you (or anyone who is interested)! If you know the

[LUTE] Re: lute straps

2006-05-05 Thread Martin Eastwell
Howard- I'm not sure that the iconographic evidence can be dismissed so lightly. The lute was perhaps the principle solo instrument of this period, and both painters and patrons (and even many artists models!) would have known what good lute technique looked like. And some models were

[LUTE] Re: Lute straps - EUREKA?

2006-05-04 Thread Martyn Hodgson
Subject: [LUTE] Re: lute straps 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

[LUTE] Re: Lute straps

2006-05-04 Thread Doctor Oakroot
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

[LUTE] Re: Lute straps

2006-05-04 Thread Roman Turovsky
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

[LUTE] Re: lute straps

2006-05-04 Thread Sandy Hackney
Arndt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 9:08 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: lute straps Dear Lute List, A long-time reader though infrequent contributor to this list, I was on the verge of posting a related topic when Katherine initiated the thread on lute

[LUTE] Re: lute straps

2006-05-04 Thread Martin Eastwell
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [LUTE] Re: lute straps Date: 4 May 2006 06:18:55 BDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

[LUTE] Re: Lute straps

2006-05-04 Thread Arto Wikla
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

[LUTE] Re: lute straps

2006-05-04 Thread Howard Posner
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

[LUTE] Re: lute straps

2006-05-04 Thread Vance Wood
PROTECTED] To: Lute Net lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 5:03 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: lute straps 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

[LUTE] Re: lute straps

2006-05-04 Thread David Rastall
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

[LUTE] Re: lute straps

2006-05-03 Thread Nick Gravestock
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 May 2006 18:03 To: Katherine Davies; lutelist Subject: [LUTE] Re: lute straps 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

[LUTE] Re: lute straps

2006-05-03 Thread Juan Fco. Prieto
on the right hip bone. I have used it myself this way. However, the shape of the lute does not commend itself to this method! Nick -Original Message- From: Juan Fco. Prieto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 May 2006 18:03 To: Katherine Davies; lutelist Subject: [LUTE] Re: lute

[LUTE] Re: Lute straps

2006-05-03 Thread David Rastall
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 tablature always in front of you? Personally, I'm

[LUTE] Re: Lute straps

2006-05-03 Thread Vance Wood
- From: David Rastall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Stewart McCoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Lute Net lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 8:18 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Lute straps Dear Stewart and list, The quote from the Burwell lute Book brings up another topic here: performing lute

[LUTE] Re: lute straps

2006-05-03 Thread Stephen Arndt
in advance, Stephen Arndt - Original Message - From: Katherine Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 10:08 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: lute straps There are lots of renaissance pictures of people playing lutes while standing up without any sign

[LUTE] Re: lute straps

2006-05-02 Thread Katherine Davies
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

[LUTE] Re: lute straps

2006-05-02 Thread Craig Allen
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 keeping the

[LUTE] Re: lute straps

2006-05-02 Thread David Rastall
On May 2, 2006, at 11:18 AM, Craig Allen wrote: Ive 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

[LUTE] Re: lute straps

2006-05-02 Thread Vance Wood
: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 11:32 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: lute straps On May 2, 2006, at 11:18 AM, Craig Allen wrote: Ive 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

[LUTE] Re: lute straps

2006-05-02 Thread Sean Smith
that be the original Air Lute? I'm sorry I just couldn't resist this one. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: David Rastall To: Cc: Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 11:32 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: lute straps On May 2, 2006, at 11:18 AM, Craig Allen wrote: Ive tried playing the lute standing up without

[LUTE] Re: lute straps

2006-05-02 Thread bill kilpatrick
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.,

[LUTE] Re: lute straps

2006-05-02 Thread Juan Fco. Prieto
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

[LUTE] Re: lute straps

2006-05-02 Thread Manolo Laguillo
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

[LUTE] Re: Lute straps

2006-05-02 Thread Luca Manassero
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

[LUTE] Re: Lute straps

2006-05-02 Thread Rob Dorsey
] Re: Lute straps 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 To get on or off this list see list

[LUTE] Re: lute straps

2006-05-01 Thread Greet Schamp
Hello Michal, This is a very nice painting! Where did you get it? Do you know the name of the painter, the title or the museum where it's kept? As many of us, I'm collecting all images of lutes and lute players. Thanks Greet Schamp Belgium -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: marigold castle