Depends. Though people debate this issue, liuto in Scarlatti Vivaldi land generally meant mandolin, you can read Tylers book for the different tunings, I use 6 double courses. So arciliuto is an octave too low, and is in octaves with the fiddles
. Having said that, it sounds reasonably nice, though I would not use that articulation myself, and transposing does occur in Vivaldi concerti. And often in Vivaldi it is hard to say exactly what was what, especially with the reed instruments. It is very cute on mandolin, esp if you can find some good gut or silk strings. Lead mutes a must. dt At 06:30 PM 11/13/2007, you wrote: >Is there any advantage on playing such an instrument in Vivaldi? > > > > > The soloist is Luca Pianca, of "Il Giardino Armonico" fame. He usually > > plays > > single strung, like many of his peers. > > > > > > > Bruno Correia wrote: > > > > > >> Is this a baroque lute? > > > > > > It is, but probably not what you mean by "baroque lute." It's > > > probably best described as a liuto attiorbato. It's configured as a > > > single-strung archlute in A. > > > > > >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF4GKIILF_U > > >> > > >> Seems to be single strung through out... > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > > > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > > > > > > >--
