On Apr 10, 2006, at 5:34 AM, Taco Walstra wrote: > On Sunday 09 April 2006 15:47, you wrote: >> >> Even my wife is not immune. I had a Weiss CD playing in the car and >> she commented: "This can't be Barto. Barto has a better sense of >> pulse and more consistent tone" (she was right). >> >> I hope you are all satisfied with yourselves. You've created a >> monster! >> > eh, barto plays with a strange mix of gut and synthetic strings. > Playing is > fabulous, his strings unfortunately not. I don't like the synthetic > tone of > his lute(s), but well that's a personal opinion. > taco > In that case, I'm not completely over to the "dark side". I'll take Barto's playing AND tone anytime over that of a pure gut strung lute played by someone without his technical and interpretive skills.
Incidentally, it was hearing the sound of a Larson Silver gimped bass on Barto's lute (a very similar model to mine) that prompted me to try them out. DS To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
