[LUTE] Re: breaking-in a lute, advice

2008-10-31 Thread Anthony Hind
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

[LUTE] Re: breaking-in a lute, advice

2008-10-31 Thread Nigel Solomon
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

[LUTE] Re: breaking-in a lute, advice

2008-10-30 Thread Anthony Hind
Le 30 oct. 08 à 15:51, ml a écrit : Hi, Anthony, how interesting is what you explain! Thank you, 1st for sharing Benjamin's recipe (I have a new viola da mano since last august that is evolving nicely since only a couple of weeks, and I will make use of that advice), Good luck with that,

[LUTE] Re: breaking-in a lute, advice

2008-10-30 Thread Anthony Hind
Le 30 oct. 08 à 15:46, Rob MacKillop a écrit : I use lots of slow, wide vibrato on chromatic notes, two strings per day. Warms my fingers up as well. Try to make every note sing. Warms the soul up too. I have done this with all my instruments. Thanks Rob, Yes, I am sure the

[LUTE] Re: breaking-in a lute, advice

2008-10-30 Thread ml
Hi, Anthony, how interesting is what you explain! Thank you, 1st for sharing Benjamin's recipe (I have a new viola da mano since last august that is evolving nicely since only a couple of weeks, and I will make use of that advice), and 2nd, because it gives me material for thinking about othe

[LUTE] Re: breaking-in a lute, advice

2008-10-30 Thread Anthony Hind
Thanks, Bernard, I'll have to ask Ariel and Benjamin about that. I believe both players know each other, so perhaps one or other is at the origin of the "recipe" (or they had the same teachers). They also both own at least one Martin Haycock instrument, so perhaps it came from him. Let us k

[LUTE] Re: breaking-in a lute, advice

2008-10-30 Thread Anthony Hind
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 some way, frequency depend