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[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: I haven't got the guts anymore!

Edward Martin
Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:51:50 -0800

>
>
>Satoh appears to have found quite a good compromise. Unless I am
>mistaken, he appears to have adopted the Dutch/English/French? 12c
>Lute, to partly get round this problem. On this, the 12c and 11c, on
>the second neck, are quite long, while the other strings are somewhat
>shorter, thus allowing the player more agility; and at the same time,
>the bass is reinforced by the large bowl size of the Burkholtzer lute.
>http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~lsa/old/Cleveland2006/TSatohConcert/ 
>PlayingRT.jpg

Anthony,

That lute is actually a copy of the Greiff, not a Burkholtzer.


>Although, the Burkholtzer, recorded on the Larson site is a 13 c
>lute, strung in Gamut gut perhaps with gimped, we can hear that it
>has a rounder more bass orientated sound the 11c Hans Frei, now in
>the Wein Kunsthistorisches Museum, no. C34 :
>       Listen first the 13 c Burkholtzer:
>http://www.daniellarson.com/lutes/berkholtzer/ 
>berkholtzer_baroque_lute_sarabande.wma
>         Second the on the Frei C34 :
>http://www.daniellarson.com/lutes/frei/frei%20baroque%20lute.wma
>
>Yes,

That is Paul Berget on the Burkholtzer 13 course lute, and me on the 11 
course lute.  Paul is strung entirely in nylon. It is his choice.  I used 
all gut.


>Ed Martin owns an 11c Frei C34 with a similar string length to that
>of the Mouton lute, and he uses a form of loaded string, since
>gimping does load the gut. This might not be historically "correct",
>but it is a compromise with which Ed is clearly happy (perhaps, it is
>Ed on the C34 recording above, certainly it is very probably the type
>of stringing he is using).

Correct.



ed




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