David, have you met makers who will build a lute "to size"? Considering my size - and because I first began playing on a Hauser-copy of a lute - the 7 or 8 course instruments I've played all seem a bit small. I don't mean string length, but body size.
Ned On Apr 9, 2012, at 5:58 PM, David Tayler wrote: > 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. > __________________________________________________________________ > > 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. > To get on or off this list see list information at > [1]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- > > References > > 1. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html >
