I am moving this thread to the Baroque Lute List, where it might benefit
from the participation of those gentlemen who are not on the general
lute-list.
RT
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Roman M. Turovsky
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Mathias Rösel")
> Date: 09 Oct 2003 08:06 GMT
> To: "Roman Turovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "Lutelist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: swan neck vs. bass rider
>
> "Roman Turovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
>>>> Any preferences for 13-course lutes with swan necks or bass riders?
>>>
>>> after some eight years with a swan neck, I think I'll return to bass riders.
>>> It's just a different concept of sound and music in general. IMO, swan neck
>>> is
>>> meant to be used for thorough bass rather than solo playing.
>>
>> IMHO Baroque Lute is NOT intended for ANY kind of ensemble playing, and any
>> attempt at that creates an acoustic atrocity.
>
> as opposed to that view, you might consider comtemporary quotations. E. g. in
> his article on Weiss, D.A. Smith quotes from a letter of a Nuremberg lutenist
> to his fellow in Frankfurt, saying that with his newly adapted 13c lute he
> could *bravely risk playing with a company of four or five persons and not
> fear being drowned out* (Journal of the LSA XXXI/98, p. 17).
>
>> Baroque Lute is essentially a PRIVATE instrument. One exception I make is for
>> accompanying
>> a human voice.
>
> for nowadays, that's what I had in mind, of course. Modern string instruments
> are usually shouting the lute down except lutenists make use of amplifying
> tools like HSmith successfully did on his Lautenkonzerte CD
>
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