Eugene C. Braig IV
Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:18:29 -0800
At 01:00 PM 2/22/2008, bill kilpatrick wrote: >interesting curio: > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dvnteWmVLo&watch_response Looks like a weird amateur effort to re-concoct the arepggione of the early 1800s from something that was built with the intent to be something else. My sense of aesthetics favors the earlier arpeggione. Chop-shop reworkings of instruments built for other uses rarely appeal to me and, as far as I'm concerned, are rarely as successful as things finding uses at least a little closer to a builder's original intent. Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html