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The Lute and the River

rootsguitar - 7-18-2014 at 08:49 AM


I love to hear oud music and always think back to how its roots gave us the renaissance-style lute too.

I imagine the travelers that helped create this exchange by traveling with horses and on rivers...

here's my take on what river music may have sounded like:

( humble music made on the North bank of the Tanana River)



http://youtu.be/80hIwZJvsB4





tuned: F-C-cc-F A-C-D-G

---T


_tone - 7-18-2014 at 09:15 AM

bravo!! you're sort of frailing, is that a standard lutetechnique?

rootsguitar - 7-18-2014 at 10:09 AM

thx!!

I like to think so, especially by someone who may have broken tuning pegs and used improvised strings as they travelled between towns.

I think the music of the courts was probably much different, more like the beautiful and complex music in other lute videos on the web.

Christian1095 - 7-28-2014 at 08:42 AM

Like the tune...

rootsguitar - 8-1-2014 at 07:06 PM

Hey thanks for the good word Chris,


here's another cut with the same lute...this time with a slide.


http://www.reverbnation.com/timrobbrootsguitar/song/21452429-seed-l...



am interested in hearing slide tones on an oud too if anyone has any suggestions


---T.Robb