Lovely sounds and nicely performed! Looking forward for more recordings on this interesting instrument.
Eugene 2011/7/4 Stuart Walsh <[1][email protected]> Some pieces played on the Lute Society's bandora which I have on hire for a bit longer. It's a nice instrument; it has a smokey sound and feels satisfying to play. I still haven't mastered tuning. I reckon that with an instrument like this - with wire strings, peg tuners, non-equal temperament, fixed frets, fan frets - that tuning is going to be a bit of a compromise. And I'm not sure where the best compromises are. [2]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcuAM4f8FoA These pieces are from Cambridge MSS, transcribed by Donald Gill (and thanks to Peter Forrester): Grimstock - Bony sweet Boy - A Toy. It must have been a bit odd then, just as now, to play little ditties like this on a bass instrument? Stuart To get on or off this list see list information at [3]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcuAM4f8FoA 3. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
