On 6/13/2009, "Bruno Correia" <bruno.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a question regarding the difference between a 10 course lute and > an archlute. I know that an archlute may have up to 14 courses and the > lowest basses will run on an extension head, unlike the 10 course that > will have all the strings on the fingerboard. Is that the only > difference between them? If the same music is executed on both > instruments, would we recognize on a blind test one an the other? This > is part of my Doctoral thesis...
Dear Bruno, they are different instruments - different "animals" as some would say. Often for ex. the archlute has single basses while a 10-courser always has double basses with octaves... Etc. Two separate instruments. And yes, we would definitely "recognize on a blind test one an the other". All the best, Arto To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
