I agree completely with you, Daniel. I like Robert Barto performance and sound quality. His Andy Rutherford's lute, also, is superb. I think he is one of the best lutenist I ever listened.
Juan Fco. 2006/4/10, Daniel Shoskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > 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 > --
