David, That is a wonderful thing. I recorded about 6 years ago the duets of Valderrabano on a mathcing set of vihuelas, of different sizes. No, I have a group duing them in a vihuela quartet. Yes, matching instruments are wonderful.
ed At 01:05 PM 3/20/2010, David Tayler wrote: > I had the opportunity to play with matched archlutes in the rehearsal > for my concert today, and I have to say I was really surpised at the > huge difference that having matched instruments makes in the sound. > There just is nothing that sounds quite like that. > I had played in groups with, for example, two theorbos by the same > maker, but the models were always different in some respects. > If I had the money, I would double down on all my instruments! > [1]http://tinyurl.com/y93bzxy > (second archlute courtesy of Sarge Gerbode) > Anyone in the SF Bay Area is welcome to come to the show tonight--it is > a free concert for the SF Food Bank > St Mark's Lutheran > 1111 O'Farrell > SF CA 8 pm -- > >References > > 1. http://tinyurl.com/y93bzxy > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html Edward Martin 2817 East 2nd Street Duluth, Minnesota 55812 e-mail: [email protected] voice: (218) 728-1202 http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1660298871&ref=name http://www.myspace.com/edslute
