Sting plays lute

Subject: Sting plays lute
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 Nov 06 - 11:32 PM

Saw Sting play what looked like a lute on steroids, tonight, on the James Taylor Tribute. Went looking for more info on google and found a neat video HERE. Thought some of you might enjoy it, too.

kat

Subject: RE: Sting plays lute
From: leeneia
Date: 29 Nov 06 - 11:48 PM

I saw it in the paper, thought it might be a theorbo.

http://www.theorbo.com/Theorbo/Definition.htm

Subject: RE: Sting plays lute
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 Nov 06 - 11:49 PM

Thanks, leeneia! That's just what it looked like, beautiful sounding, too.

Subject: RE: Sting plays lute
From: Mick Pearce (MCP)
Date: 30 Nov 06 - 07:17 AM

You might like to check out the links in Crossover alert: Sting does Dowland..

Mick

Subject: RE: Sting plays lute
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Nov 06 - 09:00 AM

Thanks, Mick. I had not seen that thread!

Subject: RE: Sting plays lute
From: Stower
Date: 30 Nov 06 - 06:31 PM

leeneia, Sting plays an archlute rather than a theorbo. The theorbo is tuned differently and, instead of having the extended neck that an archlute has, the theorbo has an eeeeeeeexxxxxxttttttteeeeeennnnndddddeeeedddddd neck, if you see what I mean.

Subject: RE: Sting plays lute
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Nov 06 - 06:37 PM

Archlute. Beautiful performance, Kat. Thanks!

Subject: RE: Sting plays lute
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Nov 06 - 07:40 PM

You're welcome, SRS. Glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you, Ian!

Subject: RE: Sting plays lute
From: MaineDog
Date: 30 Nov 06 - 07:59 PM

Am I mistaken, or didn't he do that in the Dune movie?

Subject: RE: Sting plays lute
From: leeneia
Date: 30 Nov 06 - 09:37 PM

Well, well! I never heard of an archlute before.

Sometimes I saw that the history of musical instruments is the story of the search for low notes. This impractically long instrument is a case in point.

Nobody knows this but me, but the pyramids of Egypt were originally part of a scheme to stretch super-long gut strings from the point of an obelisk (never built)to the edges of the pyramids, thus producing the longest and lowest harp in the world. Then someone figured out that you can make low notes by merely making strings thicker, and the pyramids were converted to funerary monuments.

Subject: RE: Sting plays lute
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 01 Dec 06 - 03:02 AM

I believe it was nil - nil at half time. The lute brought on a substitute in the second half. The sub. played so well he was made man of the match. Sting said it was a game of two halves, that he was looking at the transfare market and denighed that he was thinking moving into management.

The draw for the next round of the Davet Graham Cup is on Saturday.

Yours
Ron Manager

Subject: RE: Sting plays lute
From: fat B****rd
Date: 01 Dec 06 - 03:10 AM

Got himself a free plug on Jam and Jerusalem n'all.

Subject: RE: Sting plays lute
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 01 Dec 06 - 03:21 AM

Perhaps us lesser mortals could get plugs for folk clubs on Jimmy and Eamonn, 9 - 12 Sunday morning on Radio Manchester.

Big Dom Collins has been on a few times. We all have to start somewhere. Soon we will be on Wossy and Parky!

Subject: RE: Sting plays lute
From: Genie
Date: 01 Dec 06 - 08:09 PM

I've heard Sting do that song twice, with the lutes. The first time was on NBC's "Studio 60," and then there was the Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting program.   I loved the lute playing and the general sound, but it reminded me that Sting's claim to fame is not primarily his voice. LOL

Subject: RE: Sting plays lute
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Dec 06 - 01:20 PM

Interview this evening - Saturday 2 December, BBC Radio 4 'Loose Ends'