On Jan 16, 2010, at 8:28 AM, Daniel Winheld wrote: > LP of a young Hopkinson Smith performing on the "Widhalm" lute- an > unrestored 18 century swan-neck style 13 course instrument, > miraculously in playing condition. No turntable, I actually don't > know how it sounds.
Quite good, on the whole, and well worth having. I think it suffers a bit from the circumstances -- museum lets musician use the instrument for a short time for a specific project, which discourage experimenting with stringing. So the extension basses are prominent and ringy and there's some clanginess to it. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
