The guitarish aspect of interpretation is mainly due to Oliver's playing. He is a guitar player pretending also to play lute. I am not sure which CD you have listend to. I seem to remember he recorded one on a lute.
Actually I wouldn't care to much about that instrument if Oliver, Andrè and the others would make clear that it's a newly developed instrument. I think we are still on the way to promote the lute as a valued concert instrument and performances on a LF serve old prejudices. Just my opinion Thomas -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: gary digman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Montag, 31. Juli 2006 04:28 An: lutelist Betreff: [LUTE] Re: Liuto Forte I listened to the Oliver Holzenburg CD. There is no information provided about Holzenburg's lute in the liner notes, but from the picture, it appears that the lute is double strung with gut frets. The sound is not bad, but does have a guitarish quality. It is certainly loud at the high end, but the bass end seems a little weak. Gary To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
