wrist is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV2AsQwcwZc
Ken
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From: Mike Coleman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 9:21 PM
To: howard posner
Cc: LuteNet list
Subject: [LUTE] Re: pre-newbie question
I played with this a little more tonight
Also, if the guitar or lute is held up higher, like Barto, you don't have to
bend the wrist so much.
Ken
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From: Mike Coleman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 9:21 PM
To: howard posner
Cc: LuteNet list
Subject: [LUTE] Re: pre-newbie question
Hello,
Approximately on the fret II are equal to a lute in G, with A = 415 Hz.
Please, play it without fingernails! ;-)
Best wishes,
Jose Luis
2008/9/18, Mike Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I've been plinking around on a cheap guitar I have, trying to get a
sense of what it would be like to play a
Hi Mike,
I don't play with fingernails, but many lute players do (and did) so
come to your own decision about that. I think the majority of us play
with flesh.
Also, many Renaissance lutes had long string lengths, even longer than
your classical guitar, so you do not need to
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From: vance wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mike Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 6:00 AM
Subject: Re: [LUTE] pre-newbie question
A capo will put you in the correct pitch but do little in giving you a feel
for the Lute. The Lute is double
Thanks to all for your helpful replies.
I didn't really say it, but I don't know how to play the guitar
either, beyond being able to tune it and find notes on it. I'm just
using one we have laying around the house as a lute simulator. :-)
One problem I've noticed when toying with a guitar or
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From: Mike Coleman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 18 September 2008 16:09
To: lute
Subject: [LUTE] Re: pre-newbie question
Thanks to all for your helpful replies.
I didn't really say it, but I don't know how to play the guitar either,
beyond being able to tune it and find notes
On Sep 18, 2008, at 10:59 AM, Ed Durbrow wrote:
When you say it is difficult for you to turn your left hand
completely over, I don't understand what you mean,
Nor I, but it reminds me of The Exorcist.
but if you mean it is difficult to reach around and touch the
frets, you are probably
I played with this a little more tonight, and it seems that the key
for me is to bring the neck of the guitar near to vertical. It's
reasonably comfortable, for example, if I'm sighting exactly along the
third fret, with my nose about three inches from the near end of it.
I doesn't seem like many
