> I can certainly appreciate refinement of tone and > delicacy of touch. The lute responds well to this - > in a small room. But there are places (i.e. a large > room) in which being SO incredibly sensitive is > downright inappropriate.
So perhaps the room is inappropriate for the instrument. I tend to think that. Occasionally I have to play solo in _big_ concert halls - no, it doens't happen often ;-) - or churches. The latter are better, by the way, as long as I can choose where to sit. But projecting some De Visée in a 500 plus hall misses the point about De Visée. Sure, they can hear the lute, but do they hear De Visée? I doubt it. Much of lute solo music needs intimacy. Another thing entirely: I played Monteverdi's Maria Vespers in a packed 500 plus church last Saturday and theorbo as well as baroque guitar could be heard to the last row, aslo in the tuttis. In the weekend before I played in England accompanying a singer on my 10-course in a competition (she won first prize!). Afterwards the other lutenists came asking how I produced all that volume. They were on nylgut and copperwound basses, me on all-gut. There is a difference. And, sure, technique will be different, too. David Terzi cd examples on: http://www.turtlerecords.com/audio/28-t01.html http://www.turtlerecords.com/audio/28-t04.html **************************** David van Ooijen [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.davidvanooijen.nl **************************** To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
