Hi, thanks for the link to the lute maker. But the photos showed a liuto attiorbato with double bass strings. So doesn't apply to the instruments they are playing. Also maybe the reason sting wraps his arms around the lute is to hide the single strings. The are playing a concert on german television so I will be able to check if they are playing single strings or not. But the question still remains why didn't they use a lute in the style that Dowland Played ? Archlute is a serious mistake, but if it is single strung then it is joke, a shame that such a high profile CD should present such a misrepresentation of the renaissance lute. Mark -----Urspr=C3=BCngliche Mitteilung----- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Verschickt: Mo., 25.Sept.2006, 1:08 Thema: Re: [LUTE] Re: Sting and the archlute
>> But the archlute thing is sick :) > I think it is single strung. That is more of a problem than the fact that > > it > is an archlute, I should think. This seems to be getting the fashion these > days: single strung archlutes. Easy, true, but close to a guitar in sound. > And those low overspun basses are very ugly, but that might be my personal > taste: so out of 'sound-character' in a Dowland. His music needs gutsy > basses. > David Above all it needs gutsy playing. RT -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
