All the advice and the pictures help a lot! Thank you Ned, Suzanne and
Jim! I haven't even gotten it fully tuned up yet, because I was so
worried it would slip off my lap while I was fooling with the tuner.
Here's my plan, I'll post some pictures and let you know how it works
out. I
Hello,
I just ordered a lute strap for my soon-to-come liuto attiorbato from
José Antonio Ahumada in France. This was very difficult because the
chello.fr email I had did not work. However I managed to phone him
(merci Philippe) and his new email is:
m.ahumadacas...@numericable.com
He
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 there particular types
of material that are preferable,
I use string.. cotton or whatever.
Wayne
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
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 14.25 wrote:
I use string.. cotton or whatever.
Wayne
I would like to know from lutenists who use
Dear Manolo and Katherine,
Mouton's coat certainly gives him the choice of several buttons to
hook his lute on.
One important factor not mentioned so far in this discusison, is how
people sat to play the lute. When this was discussed on the Italian
Lute Net in January 2004, I made the point that
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 the body of the
instrument. One peg is where you'd expect to see a peg, i.e. in the
middle of the end clasp; the other peg is fixed through the middle
rib just
Here's a bit of evidence for the historic accuracy of straps:
http://www.mit.edu/~thrasher/images/dc/funky_lute.jpg Looks like an orangeish
strap to me. Granted most re-enactors are re-enacting from earlier periods so
they might not consider that painting evidence of earlier strap use.
