Thanks to all for sharing your thoughts and experiences, on- and off-list. There's even a d-minor theorbo living just across the road, it turned out! Interesting.
I have a follow-up question for continuo players. How easy is it to play compound, complicated figures on a d-minor theorbo? Or , to widen the question, what would be your favourite continuo instrument for high baroque, say Bach et al? I'm playing around on my 11-course but my continuo skills in this tuning are not good enough yet to have a real taste of what it could be like. Archlute in g' (with some scordatura to go down chromatically to low D) is easiest for me, but the sound is not always satisfying and it might not be the most historically correct choice for German repertoire. My theorbo in a (double reentrant) has a good sound, but I feel myself limited to keys with not too many flats, fairly simple figures and to bass lines that are not too high and not too chromatic. having said that, i do use it in the occasional Bach. What are the solutions other people adopt? David T. brings an A and a G instrument to some gigs, I believe. Yes, I occasionally do that too, but prefer to bring just one giraffe at a time. David -- ******************************* David van Ooijen [email protected] www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
