<[email protected]> schrieb: > Last night I enjoyed hearing the Italian duo Vittorio Ghielmi (bass v > da gamba) and Luca Pianca (arch-lute) play a program of baroque music. > Vittorio did a lot of playing above the frets on the gamba - later > music I guess was thus written? Very virtuosic playing. And the > loudest gamba (7 string) I've ever heard - almost like a cello in the > mid to upper range! Luca's arch lute was 13 strings, single strung. > Single strung being not typical, I would think? The sound was lovely > and projected very well and seemed to me like a transitional sound from > lute to guitar. (He played two solo works, one by Weiss).
Which is amazing as he plays in renaissance tuning. Well, there's nothing that a real guitarist can't do. -- Mathias To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
