"Anthony Hind" <[email protected]> schrieb: > Yes, his lute is a rider lute, and I am glad to see that you no > longer seem to think that the one automatically entails the other.
As an amateur, I do think that J-barring preceded fan barring and that bass rider lutes preceded swan-necked lutes. > Also he uses nylgut strings, and does not play very far back from the > rose, in a position closer to the Jacques Gautier painting, than the > Charles Mouton one. Which results in a sound cloer to the classical guitar than what a gut-strung baroque can be expected to sound IMHO. I've listened to his CD several times by now, and I must say, his performance certainly is impeccable, but I do not particularly like the sound. Matter of taste, probably. -- Mathias To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
