> thanks for your reply. Non c'e' di che. > i wasn't so much interested in hearing early > recordings of the established baroque repertoire > (bach, weiss, etc.) but more in hearing what an early, > lute like instrument itself might sound like. > > there must be early kobsa recordings, for example > which would give us an idea. maybe this is stupid but There are a few, as only one kobza player lived into the wax cylinder era.
> by comparing how a ukranian kobsa player from the turn > of the last cent. treated his instrument - without, i > would assume, any over riding, outside influences from > other cultures, radio, etc. - it might be possible > to draw conclusions about similar cordophones from the > same era and project them all the way back to the > baroque and beyond. One thing is certain: the folk sound wasn't too pretty, tuning was arbitrary and commensurate with the level of intoxication, and the instruments' acoustics were simply not pretty either, gut strings were thuddy, take early tango recordings for an example. RT To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
