Thanks for your input, Diego! This new effort has entered my short list of favorite recordings of these old chestnuts.
Eugene > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 12:56 PM > To: 'Lute Dmth' > Subject: [LUTE] Re: RV93 - which instrument? > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Eugene C. Braig IV" <[email protected]> > To: "'Lute Dmth'" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 5:10 PM > Subject: [LUTE] Re: RV93 - which instrument? > > > > Instrumentation > > follows the recently popular status quo: RV 82, 85, and 93 on archlute > by > > Diego Cantalupi; > > > FYI: http://www.brilliantclassics.com/release.aspx?id=FM00350813 > > > For this recording I used an archlute in A. > The A tuning in mentioned in Il Leuto anatomizzato by Valentini. > > And if you have a look at the lute played by Della Casa: > > http://badigit.comune.bologna.it/cmbm/images/ripro/quadri/350/0081.jpg > > you can clearly understand how a short instrument like this one can be > tuned > in A. > > Also the Della Casa music and other similar manuscripts works very well > with > a tuning one tone higher than usual. > > Diego > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
