Dear Luthe friends,
Firstly I want to give thanks to have ansered my last question. Thank you!
I practicing to build Luthes and now I want to make a Theorbe. So I am
asking me what kinds of Theorbe exist and what stringlength I have to give
them to play what kind of music?
What you play for
Dear Daniel,
the best information about theorboes, size and string length you can find at
www.theorbo.com
the website of Lynda Sayce.
Until now I play a theorbo of Andreas von Holst, Munich, a wonderful
instrument. It has 6 courses with 76 cm on the fingerboard and 8 basses with
140 cm.
Dear Daniel
Good question. As many different answers as there are theorbo players,
probably.
For Italian continuo: large. Everything: body, stopped strings, extended
basses. Read Linday Sacey's article, it recently circulated on this list, it
explains why you should have a big as possible
Daniel:
If you want some perspective on historical instruments, have a look at
the Lautenweltadressbuch
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~lsa/associated/index.html#Lautenweltadressbu
ch
Entering G or chitarrone (or theorb) in the Type field will get you
lists of two-pegbox instruments. The data on
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006, Sean Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Dear Stewart,
I would add that much of the music under discussion is extremely
complex rhythmically.
Typical for 15c material; including Hayne, Binchois, and Josquin, all of
which I played extensively with the Collegium Musicum of
So, I'm glad that people who have 6 course lutes are thrilled with
their instruments. What I don't fully understand is why the 6 course
literature is so much easier to play on a 6 course lute. I have an
8 course that I love: great sound, fits my hands well, guitarists
look at it and are
Daniel,
One thing that may be helping and is often overlooked is the thicker,
half-round neck shape. When I play a friend's 8-c nowadays that throws
off my sense of where my left fingers are in relation to my thumb as
much as anything else.
Sean
On Feb 18, 2006, at 1:15 PM, Daniel Shoskes
For me, it is so much in the quality of the way the six course lute
responds, with a simpler bar pattern in the soundboard, a less complicated
sound
with more emphasis on the fundamental, less in the higher frequencies, and a
good volume balance between all the courses, that seem on
Dana,
one issue to be resolved, how does a lutenist deal with lng notes,
easy on a bow, they are a challenge to decorate while still maintaining
suspension (especially if one has difficulty playing like ala
balalaika).
As I think Stewart pointed out, it should be ok to reiterate that
Yes .iPO'D!
Kenneth
n a message dated 1/31/2006 5:51:13 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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Gives a whole new meaning to the word iPOD.
David
For fans of both O'Dette and iTunes, I notice that they have just added 16
POD albums (Harmonia Mundi) to the
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