On Nov 13, 2007, at 6:47 AM, Nigel Solomon wrote: > Everything about it screams guitar to me: the sound, the nails, the > general approach. Yes, a guitar that looks a bit like a lute!
To me, everything about it screams liuto attiorbato, like a good many historical instruments in museums with fingerboard lengths under 60 cm and extension strings of 75-85 cm, played with nails the way historical Italian players would likely have played it. In the 90's Luca Pianca was playing instruments by the Swiss maker Luc Breton. I don't know if he still is. BTW, Giardino Armonico is playing here at A=392 (their D is the C on my wife's piano), so Luca's A would be G at A=440. The CD recording of the same concerto that Pianca and Giardino released in 1992 was at A=415. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
