>On Thursday 27 January 2005 11:35, Ed Durbrow wrote: >> >I've never heard about archilute with wound basses (forgive my ignorance >> > if it is a common practice). If such thing exists, then, man, you will >> > have a "grand piano" sound!!lol >> >> In _The Performance of the Basso Continuo in Italian Baroque Music_ >> UMI Research Press Ann Arbor Michigan by Tharald Borgir, it is stated >> that the archlute increased in popularity after about 1680 because of >> the introduction of wound strings which it louder and, as it was >> more agile than the theorbo, more practical for continuo. >> >> cheers, >Interesting information. Does he give any evidence for this opinion? >And does he think this is the only reason for the growing popularity of the >archlute or are there any other reasons mentioned in this book? >taco walstra
I really wish I had the book at hand, but unfortunately I had to give it back to the music library. He seems to back up most of his opinions with sources, but I think he referred to wound strings on the archlute in the late 18th century as common knowledge.. I'm sorry, I don't have the book to check. I hope I haven't mis-paraphrased him. cheers, -- Ed Durbrow Saitama, Japan http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
