Daniel Shoskes wrote: > My question is, who is "overrating" the lute??
I suppose he means directors who hire lute players and, as Goebel sees it, audiences with theorbo envy. > Perhaps the small grain of truth that he is getting at: when a modern > continuo player on theorbo has to make themselves heard, there is by > necessity a greater emphasis on banging out volume (which is > destructive to tone) rather than the sensitivity of playing that makes > the solo literature so special. It's not about being heard so much as it is about making the overall sound better. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
