Good question. I prefer bigger lutes, more than 60 cm. Actually,
browsing the beautiful iconography posted recently here, I noticed a
great incidence of large instruments. Some, almost too large for modern
standards.
Bruno Correia.
2011/8/10 Edward Mast <[1]nedma...@aol.com>
The more I read about the lute during the 16th century, the more it
seems to me that the norm for string length then was closer to 65 cm
than the 60 cm which seems more favored and common today. Are we
(myself included) - who choose the shorter mensur - wimps? If
classical guitarists of all shapes and sizes can manage a 64 cm
mensur, should we lutenists not be able to do likewise? Just
wondering . . .
-Ned
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