The liuto forte is availlable single or double strung in gut or nylon
with moveable gut or fixed metal frets. If one were to order an LF double
strung in gut with gut frets and if, as Roman says, it has a baroque lute's
bracing, it seems to me one would have a baroque lute pure and simple.
Whether it would be a good baroque lute is a matter of opinion.
The makers of the LF say that one of their goals is to provide
guitarists with an instrument that would allow them to explore the lute's
literature while keeping the same guitar technique they're used to. That
seems to me to be a perfectly legitimate concern and no threat to the lute
proper. There's no reason a guitarist shouldn't have an instrument
availlable to him or her that would open up the wonderful music availlable
to the lute. I just don't see where the threat to the lute is.
I listened to the Oliver Holzenburg CD. There is no information
provided about Holzenburg's lute in the liner notes, but from the picture,
it appears that the lute is double strung with gut frets. The sound is not
bad, but does have a guitarish quality. It is certainly loud at the high
end, but the bass end seems a little weak.
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roman Turovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Howard Posner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 4:33 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Liuto Forte
> >>> This is conceptually different from taking
> >>> the concept of the lute and redesigning it to be louder, on the model
> >>> of the modifications made to pianos and violins in the 19th century,
> >>> which is the idea behind the liuto forte.
> >
> >> The LF modifications are not nearly as drastic. The main being the
> >> idea of gut frets absorbing vibration, while metal ones reflecting it.
> >> As I recall the LF barring sistem is basically baroque.
> >
> > That may be. My only source of information was the Liuto Forte web
> > site; they may be exaggerating the level of their "innovation."
> In fact, that's the general opinion.
> RT
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