A louder, if not more pleasant, sound.
MH --- On Sun, 31/10/10, Suzanne Angevine <[email protected]> wrote: From: Suzanne Angevine <[email protected]> Subject: [LUTE] OT: 19th C guitar To: "Lute List" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, 31 October, 2010, 16:24 In that same excellent concert the second half was played on a replica of a 19th century guitar, the kind with a smaller body and simple lute-like barring. I'm struck by how beautiful, bright, and clear the sound of these instruments is, especially when playing music from that period. (I heard a fine Carulli sonata.) So what were builders and players after that they made the body bigger and the barring stronger on modern classical guitars? Suzanne To get on or off this list see list information at [1]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
