I've always been a heretic in lute-matters, but am quite happy playing Weiss on a guitar tuned to D-minor while octavating the basses. Perfectly viable.
Also, the 11 string guitar is by no means a new invention. The swedish guitarbuilder Bolin was making his "Altguitars" already in the 60's. Listen to Göran Söllscher being a fair exponent. BTW wasn't this a lute list? B.R. G. On Apr 7, 2005 8:03 AM, Markus Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you, Ed, for giving this recording. > Of course it is much easier to play Weiss (or baroque lute music in general) > if you have a guitar with additional basses. > A "normal" guitar has it restrictions, but anyway Weiss stays beautiful music > even on such an instrument. > I've begun to play Weiss and to estimate him through playing his music on a > concert guitar. > Also I'm not a virtuoso on it, many of the Weiss suites worked very well on > it. > In my eyes the main problem is how musically these adaptions are played and > if they have the baroque spirit that Weiss has. > > Regarding Schneeweiss I can only add, that his paraphrases of Weissian music > had been one of the main causes I have turned to the (baroque) lute. > I feeled that his recordings doesn't fit at all the spirit of this music and > I wanted to learn how it sounded and how it should be played. > > Best > Markus To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
