Bernd
2022-04-18 19:27:22 ⋅ 3y
No. 146538
I'm in the train home and my aunt came to one of the stations midway between and borrowed me a lute.
A REAL OLD LUTE ahhh my heart is beating faat but I can not play it until I arrive home.
Bernd
2022-04-18 21:59:29 ⋅ 3y
No. 146542
I'm in love.
Sadly it has a few cracks... it is over 100 years old after all and was just hanging around in a living room most of the time.
Tomorrow I will see my luthier of trust and ask how much it costs to fix.
It also needs new strings, the current ones are terribly out of tune.
Bernd
2022-04-18 22:08:05 ⋅ 3y
No. 146544
>>146538
your aunt is very very based
Bernd
2022-04-18 22:09:30 ⋅ 3y
No. 146545
>>146544
i know thanks i love my family
Bernd
2022-04-18 22:16:24 ⋅ 3y
No. 146548
>>146545
Are you born in a musicians family ?
Bernd
2022-04-18 22:22:05 ⋅ 3y
No. 146549
>>146548
yes, ~30% of my close relatives earn their bread with music and pretty much everyone else except for one or two zoomers and my mum play an instrument as a hobby
I suck though
Bernd
2022-04-18 23:54:24 ⋅ 3y
No. 146555
This is how it sounds now.
Will post again tomorrow once I got new strings for it. These are likely a few decades old.
Bernd
2022-04-19 07:41:17 ⋅ 3y
No. 146574
>>146555
peaceful, post more
Bernd
2022-04-19 16:35:06 ⋅ 3y
No. 146614
Based I wish I had a luthe
This is supposed to be the maple leaf rag.
I put on new strings this evening and the intonation of the lute is fixed but I think the new strings sound a lot worse than the old ones.
Perhaps the bass strings were still made of real guts...? They were so dirty and black that I thought its just usual classic guitar strings but seems like I just three away something I won't get back easily.
I think the sound in >>146555 has a lot more soul, please share onions.
Bernd
2022-04-20 05:18:56 ⋅ 3y
No. 146655
>>146639
It sounds like a an usual guitar
Bernd
2022-04-20 06:10:27 ⋅ 3y
No. 146656
>>146655
yeah, right? the difference is very small now, i really need to get more suitable strings to get back the magical lutesound. Cheap nylon sucks.
It is a a "guitarlute" anyway, those were built a lot around 1910-20 in Germany. The big differences to earlier lutes is that it is tuned like the guitar, doesn't have the kinked neck for the tuning mechanics.