OK all, I'm going to make a defense of another lute. I considered the EMS
lute kit, which I think at the time would have cost me about $800 (more now
with the exchange rates), and asked some advice. The EMS kit was well
recommended, but involved a lot of work. I chose to buy the Musikits flat
I've heard that the cheap S. Asian (Pakistani?) lutes on ebay are
trash. More trouble to make them into a lute than they're worth.
I got one of those lutes. It cost me many hours of work (maybe 50-90),
many trips to the hardware store, and 4-5 questions posted here to this
list (for which I
: Questions from a newbie
I've heard that the cheap S. Asian (Pakistani?) lutes on ebay are
trash. More trouble to make them into a lute than they're worth.
I got one of those lutes. It cost me many hours of work (maybe 50-90),
many trips to the hardware store, and 4-5 questions posted here
Dear Tim
I purchased a renaissance lute, already built, from the Early Music Shop
last November. As far as I know, it was built in the UK. I ordered it in
June 2004 and it was not ready until November. It was relatively cheap as
lutes go, but it is perfectly alright for me as a beginner. In
Hi Tim,
I have no experience with EMS lutes. I would recommend either to buy a used
lute or a new student lute which several builders offer. In any case you
should try to find a lute player to come along for good advice about the
instrument.
The late Walter Gerwig played all the music on his
Tim Beasley wrote:
A second question deals with the difference between Renaissance/Baroque
lutes. Apparently the most common varieties of the two differ by a single
string (7 versus 8 strings). I have to assume that there's more of a
difference between the two, however, than that one
Dear Howard,
Thank you for your clarification.
Please see my additions below.
Best regards,
Marion
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From: Howard Posner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Mar 25, 2005 10:42 AM
To: Tim Beasley [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lute net lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: Re: Questions from a newbie
Tim wrote:
But I haven't heard anything at all about the EMS lutes (Early Music Shop,
England). They're within my price range. But are they playable lutes,
with a reasonable--for a student lute--sound? Has anybody assembled one of
their kits? (If I'm overlooking an obvious source of
Roman Turovsky wrote:
I'm an amateur classical guitarist and I'm getting tired of playing lute
music in transcription. I'm going to be selling one of my guitars in the
next week or two, and one possible use of the money is a lute.
When I started with CG, I got a student instrument that served
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From: Tim Beasley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Mar 25, 2005 1:01 PM
To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: Re: Questions from a newbie
Thank you, everybody. I have a fair amount to think about and digest.
I think I'll avoid the EMS student lutes; one person here voiced
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