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
>
>
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