It's probably not the 'done thing' on this forum, but LOL anyway! Bill From: Roman Turovsky <[email protected]> To: William Samson <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, 21 October 2011, 17:18 Subject: Re: [BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Bocquet vids Interesting experiment! However there is a occaional give-away: one can often identify gut by its dodgy intonation. RT ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Samson" <[1][email protected]> To: "Christopher Wilke" <[2][email protected]>; <[3][email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 12:13 PM Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Bocquet vids > You know, I wonder about the use of synthetic strings vs gut. > Certainly a player can feel the difference in his/her fingers, but I'm > not convinced that the listener can identify the string material by > hearing a performance. The same (IMHO) goes for lots of things that > are thought to affect the sound of the lute - the shape of the > body, the material of the back. These things may indeed have an > effect, perhaps psychological, on the way the musician plays the > instrument, but what the audience hears is mostly what the musician > puts into the playing, not the details of the instrument itself. > Some years ago, at a Lute Society Summer School, Chris Wilson performed > an experiment. He played the same pieces on four very different lutes > (different makers, some Venetian shape, some Bologna shape, all at the > same pitch) to a blindfolded audience of lutenists, and asked them to > write on a piece of paper which instrument they thought they were > hearing. The results were quite random, with the exception of one > instrument that had octave tuning right up to the fourth course - and > even then some listeners couldn't identify it. Chris, naturally, said > that the instruments felt very different to him as a player, but what > the audeince heard was Chris, and the lutes used weren't of great > significance. > Bill > > -- > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > [4]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
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