I agree - quietness should be thought of as one of the lute's key qualities - not an issue to be overcome - as with another famously quiet instrument, the clavichord...
Andrew On 25 Sep 2007, at 10:11, Francesco Tribioli wrote: >> Even recordings that are "unprocessed" are processed (unbeknownst by >> the original engineer) by goofballs at the pressing plant who don't >> know how the machines work. > This is the big problem... people are used to listen to edited > recording and > are not aware of this. So when they attend a concert and hear to > the real > thing, they are disconcerted and disappointed. The same holds for > harpsichord concerts. Almost all the recordings has the harpsichord > boosted > up to the level of a gran coda piano while in the reality it's very > soft and > melting into the string orchestra, especially if the concert is > done in a > huge theater 4-5 times larger then what the instrument was built to > effectively work into. > > Aren't we supposed to be the *paladins* of HIP (no flame war please > 8^)) why > many of the people that actually do recordings accept the lute is > boosted > up, giving a false idea to the listeners of what the instrument > realy is? > > Francesco > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
