If you use all original instruments, you will hear the lute fine.
However, if you have thin bridges, heavy bows, thick bass bars, metal
strings etc on the bowed strings then they will be easily twice as
loud. And so all of the soft instruments will disappear.
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From: Mathias Roesel <[email protected]>
To: lute net <[email protected]>
Sent: Mon, April 9, 2012 5:50:11 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: All about micing...part II
> there and the music was generally very interesting but I hear your
> theorbo only on the solo piece..." (a Kapsberger)...Na...
There's nothing wrong with an audible theorbo in an ensemble, probably,
but
the thing is, pluckers cannot hold their tones like singers, viols,
flutes
or organs do. So what should be heard are the impulses of each chord or
note
that you play. Profiling the rhythmic structure of an ensemble piece is
a
major task of the theorbo, I suppose. And if you're not content with
that,
there's another way to become audible. You can break the chords. Not in
the
way of quick arpeggios, but in regular rhythm. You can try to go in
consonant intervals alongside the leading part in prominent passages.
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