EUGENE BRAIG IV wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Wednesday, October 5, 2005 5:33 pm >Subject: [LUTE] Re: New Boy wants lute > > > >>On the other hand, it is probably easier to switch from guitar to >>renaissance lute because of the tuning (fourths and a third). >>Better yet, >>if New Boy is interested in playing in ensembles either >>professionally or >>not, he should consider getting a theorbo. It shares many of the easy >>technical features of the baroque lute, and has the added >>advantage of >>being single strung and tuned almost exactly like a guitar. >> >> > >Michel Cardin makes this same case, but theorbo ordinarily constitutes a much >more substantial monetary investment than any renaissance lute. I'm not sure >any newish guitarist having never played any breed of lute before would be >well advised to leap right in with commitment to the theorbo. > >Eugene > >
My teacher has a theorbo for sale. I think he's asking around $2-3 K or so for it. Greg-- -- Greg Silverman EnHS Health Studies University of MN email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 612-625-6870 fax: 612-624-3370 To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
