ROWAN LUTE - Mark Laurent

[sonjavank]

a beautiful work! i keep coming back to listen to this while working on visuals

[anandvyasorg]

Very Good Brother - Much Rather Listen to this than... Lovely - Would be nice to get you into a proper Studio and Do some Work

[LaurentMark]

@anandvyasorg Thanx man, really nice of you to say so.

[gilbohadana]

Thanks--so beautiful and good spirit

[LaurentMark]

Thank you, I really appreciate you saying that.

Go well, Mark

[Mouldytone]

Thanks mate. A beautiful piece of music played on a wonderful acoustic instrument. My thanks also to Chris Lewis for recording it.

I love house concerts and the smaller, intimate venues. They seem to make you part of the music somehow.

Tony

[LaurentMark]

Thanks Tony - yeah house concerts are probably my favourite kind of gig. And when you're like me (not famous) they're probably the most viable gigs too :-)

Go well, Mark

[MusiTech33]

Greetings Tony (and Mark!) Yes it was a special evening - Mark & Brenda are gifted in making this so! Very happy to see others sharing in the enjoyment of this moment thru the lense & mic. I agree with your comments! :) Blessings, Chris L

[rijkent55]

A very special instrumental video, with a very special lute.

[JohannesKuenel]

This really sounds nice, but man you are stealing views by posting this as a video response to a Kindgren video which doesn't have any relation to this video.

[LaurentMark]

Hi Johannes

Thanx for the compliment about the Rowan lute vid - much appreciated :-) I can't remember the Kindgren vid I'm afraid - I must've posted the response quite a while ago - but something about it must've inspired me to do it, maybe I didn't have anything else remotely similar either but just wanted to show respect. Sorry, my memory's not too good on it, and I don't actually post responses very often so... ?

Take care

Mark

[JohannesKuenel]

Uh, nevermind ;-) ..

But hey, can you tell me what tuning you use on this lute? Could try it on the classical guitar for some impro.

Best Regards,

Johannes

[LaurentMark]

Yeah the lute has 4 strings, 2 close together which I use as drone strings, and 2 melody strings. From bottom to top the tuning on that vid is EAEA, so it gives me the key of A. But I make up all sorts of tunings for it, however that's a nice easy one to play as the intervals are the same as on guitar.

[anandvyasorg]

@JohannesKuenel - No such thing as Stealing - It is Called Marketing Well, Try it Sometime. First one must have Talent ~

[JohannesKuenel]

@anandvyasorg

Dude, work off your aggressions before logging into youtube - you intentionally read the second comment page with comments written more than one year ago, just to pick out the one you can complain about!?!

Mark and I clarified this a long time ago, today we just enjoy each other's music!

Anyway, let's just forget this now, and listen to Mark.. I still love this tune!

[cosmoneglecta]

thanks Mark... Marianne

[LaurentMark]

Hi Marianne - lovely to hear from you, glad you like it. Sweet memories, aye?

[CaputMortummy]

That's beautifull thankyou! I used to know Alan. iT's lovely that he lives on through his instruments.

[LaurentMark]

Thanx for saying so - yeah a lot of people have said that about Alan's instruments. I often mention him in my intro to the lute at concerts, and people are always coming up after and wanting to look at it, or touch it, or know what kind of wood it's made from, and a lot of the time they're not musicians - nice.

[PennyArkansas]

Love it, and very interesting instrument! How special!

[stopsurfing]

Nice, thanks. And nice to know the story of the instrument as well

[mrGalaxy7]

Liked it a lot, nice playing.

[mrGalaxy7]

Nice one Mark. Love the Mid Eastern feel. Very classy.