> similar even if wrong sound? I think simply doesn't exist an archlute that > can win against such an orchestra. Actually even a guitar is easily > overwhelmed by a quartet of modern strings. The past year I've listened to > the integral of the Boccherini's quartets with guitar and the guitar was > barely audible.
> playing ancient music, but to be engaged just to show the neck of the > archlute is frustrating, isn't it? Last week I listened to an ensemble concert, incl. a theorbo. Hm. At one point the viola da gamba player took over: pizzicato. It was 20 (or 17) times as loud as the theorbo ;-) :-( B. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
