Danny- Bravo! Very satisfying videos. I'm with Ed Martin on this; I much prefer the 11 course in gut, although they both sound very good. It reminds me of my own 13 course, which is mostly gut, while your 13 course shares some of the tonal qualities of my archlute, which is all synthetic including copper overspun basses. The extra, left-over vibration/sustain in the synthetics manifests (in MY ears!) as a "slight disturbance in the force", but boy is it convenient to have one lute in synthetics.
Your sound has improved significantly over the first time I ever heard you (only on line so far); and you have achieved a unified intimacy- an "at-oneness"- with your lutes that is strong, obvious, and very moving. Keep up the good work, this was a pleasure to listen to. Dan > I recently did a video comparison of the D Major Reusner Passacaglia > between my 11 and 13 course lutes, but having been recorded a few > months apart, it wasn't really a fair competition. Here now is a direct > comparison filmed consecutively with the same equipment, the same > distance from the same mic and the same processing by way of a Weiss C > Major Prelude: -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
