[LUTE] Re: modern lute(?) music, anecdotal

2011-05-30 Thread David van Ooijen
On 30 May 2011 08:49, wrote: > Are you in touch with Susan King susanjanetk...@gmail.com  and Lynda Sayce > lyndasa...@gmail.com about their database of contemporary lute music? - CG And inflict all these impossible pieces on my colleagues? David -- *** David van

[LUTE] Re: modern lute(?) music, anecdotal

2011-05-30 Thread David van Ooijen
On 30 May 2011 04:16, Christopher Wilke wrote: >> however uncomfortable my part felt on a >> theorbo, it >> would have fitted a guitar surprisingly well. > > Wow, a modern composer who actually wrote an idiomatic guitar part.  That's a > first in itself!  (The composer is a guitarist, I suppose?)

[LUTE] Re: modern lute(?) music, anecdotal

2011-05-29 Thread Ed Durbrow
How was it suddenly easy if you had to play a right handed guitar left handed? FWI, tuning up until a string breaks sounds dangerous to me. If the string is not weak that could add a bit of tension to the instrument. I picture you in tights with a cape and 'super lute man' written