Hi, among the greatest instruments I know of are by Bernd Kresse: http://www.kresse-gitarren.de/repro_g.html I personally am playing a marvelous instrument by Renzo Salvador http://www.renzosalvador.be/en/guirom.html (the one at the top is mine) Heidi von Rüden has built very decent instruments - I was lucky to play (and own) some Stauffer replica as well as one of her Pages models which are on exhibition at the moment here in switzerland. http://www.gitarrenbauatelier.de/enter.htm
The Pages model is something between baroque guitar and early romantic guitar and I assume one needs time to get used to it. The stauffer and early french models are very much what I like, very decent and "gentle" and "soft". The Panormo models tend to come closer to the sound of modern Torres guitars Hope this helpd Thomas >Hello all, > > > This is not, strictly speaking, a lute question, >but I know a number of list members are into this, so >I thought I'd toss it out to the general population. >Ignore if you hate guitars. > > I'm toying around with the possibility of getting >a 19th century guitar. I've researched a bit, but I >wonder if anyone would be interested in offering their >opinions regarding the relative merits of different >makers and types i.e. Panormo, La Cote, Stauffer, >other? - here I'm talking about modern instruments >based on the above. >I'm wondering, too, if it might not be worthwhile to >look into a 6-COURSE guitar to play that little-known >transitional repertoire before Giuliani and Sor. > > Finally, can anyone recommend a site as reputable >as Wayne's Lute Page for buying one of these things? > > Contact off-list, please (or on-list if you think >it would be of interest to anyone). > >Chris > > > >_______________________________________________________________________________ >_____ >Low, Low, Low Rates! Check out Yahoo! Messenger's cheap PC-to-Phone call rates > >(http://voice.yahoo.com) > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
