I’ve had my #lute for about a month now. Progress is slow but I’m finally at least able to find the bass strings without having to stop and curse.
Here’s a very simple 16th century English piece. Still clunky and uneven but getting there. Playing with no nails for the first time in over 45 years is also a challenge!
Some #earlymodern remedies.
A set of #songs and #choruses from the Masque of #Mountebanks, where quack doctors vie with each other to sell cures every conceivable ailment...
This #Jacobean#masque was performed twice in London in 1618. First at #GraysInn, and then at the Banqueting House in Whitehall for King James I.
My first baby steps on the #lute. Decided on something seasonal. As I said in a previous demo video of course a lot of guitar technique transfers, but the string spacing and double courses are a big climb.
My own very simple arrangement of Lully Lullay (aka A Conventry carol).
My latest squeeze. A 1982 #Renaissance#lute by David van Edwards in England.
When I was in grad school I played in an #earlymusic trio. I was always bummed because I couldn’t afford a real lute, let alone a lefty one. So I just played the lute parts on a classical guitar w a capo.
This will alleviate a little of that frustration.
Today this beauty goes off to Mel Wong at Blackbird String Arts in San Francisco for converting to lefty and general tidying up.