Thanks for sharing Alfonso!--it's been great pleasure listening to your recorded tracks! Nice playing and beautiful voice of your partner! i would just slightly slow down a little bit, but that's only my personal taste--i like slightly slower so that when one may want to purposefully speed some parts for expression reasons there will be a more obvious contrast and tension elimination. About her, very lovely too! the only thing, if it were up to me, i will make her sing "Say Love" in a more "flowing" way (less sacaded/stomping). I know it is not some habit of hers because she sings just beautifully "Can She Excuse", and all theother things. But again, only personal taste, nothing important:) Your lute "a little slow"? Could it be strings too stretchy or high action? Nice accoustic for the recording! It's a common practice to put the lute too silently on the background, but yours is just resonating very nicely and blending with her voice. She's got a very mobile and light voice! take care!
Dear All, > > I am back again after an intense period of work that did not allow me > to keep up reading the messages. > > Now that I am on the market for a new 10 or 11-course lute I realized > how difficult it is to choose the right maker among the many ones > available today. > It is difficult to get references from reliable players and most of the > makers have a long waiting list so they do not have instruments in > stock for the potential customers to try and have an idea of their > work. > I though it could be a good idea if we could introduce our instruments > to the lutelist with some information about them and some description > of their sound and qualities. > I would be also a good way to promote young, less experienced makers, > encouraging us to order from them. > > To start off I will introduce my instruments to the list: > > 1) 7-course lute by Malcolm Prior (1998) after Venere. Multi rib > rosewood back. 58.5 cm. > Excelent! Very deep singing sound full of low harmonics. Quite loud. > The only little problem is that it doesn't "speak" so quickly. For the > rest I am very happy with it. The level of craftsmanship is mint. You > can listen to it at: > > http://www.lutevoice.com/samplesen.html > > 2) Theorbo by Nico van der Waals (2000). 82 cm/ 164 cm (long neck). Yew > multi rib back. It is based on his own design. Beautiful sound for solo > repertoire. The bowl is too small compared to the string length and I > have the feeling when I play it with orchestras and ensembles that I > would be happier with a louder sound. The level of craftsmanship is > really good but not mint. > > I have also a vihuela but the quality is not good enough to be mention > here. > > I am looking forward to know about your instruments! > Many greetings, > > Alfonso marin > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > ------------------------------------------ Faites un voeu et puis Voila ! www.voila.fr --
