Hera, If I may be so bold, I might suggest playing closer to the bridge with the thumb far out in front of the fingers as the treatises and iconographic sources demonstrate. I feel that as pluckers in ensembles, we have to get past the idea of always making a "nice" sound. (not that you can't make a nice sound with this position.) I must admit, I have difficulty with this myself. Whenever I try to project the sound outside the group, I always wonder what my fellow ensemble members must think of the brash tone, fret buzz, etc. My mind tells me that it sounds OK in the audience but my heart tells me that it's just wrong, wrong, wrong. Chris __________________________________________________________________
From: hera caius <caiush2...@yahoo.com>; To: lute net <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>; Subject: [LUTE] Re: All about micing...part II Sent: Tue, Apr 10, 2012 11:26:38 AM All instruments very authentic copies. Gamba and violin on gut, historical bows, baroque flute traversierre, 14 course theorbo in A on nylgut and copper and organo di legno (wood organ) One example: [1][1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfDoomhnUOU&list=UUFoONkd8wBnm1emu E8y bClQ&index0&feature=plcp (recording was made in 2010) (the quality of the recording is not the best) --- On Tue, 4/10/12, David Tayler <[2]vidan...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: From: David Tayler <[3]vidan...@sbcglobal.net> Subject: [LUTE] Re: All about micing...part II To: "lute" <[4]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Date: Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 12:58 AM 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 <[2][5]mathias.roe...@t-online.de> To: lute net <[3][6]Lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> 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][4][7]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. [5][8]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. [9]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfDoomhnUOU&list=UUFoONkd8wBnm1emuE8y bClQ&index0&feature=plcp 2. file://localhost/mc/compose?to=[10]mathias.roe...@t-online.de 3. file://localhost/mc/compose?to=[11]Lute@cs.dartmouth.edu 4. [12]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 5. [13]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfDoomhnUOU&list=UUFoONkd8wBnm1emuE8y 2. javascript:return 3. javascript:return 4. javascript:return 5. javascript:return 6. javascript:return 7. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 8. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html 9. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfDoomhnUOU&list=UUFoONkd8wBnm1emuE8ybClQ&index0&feature=plcp 10. javascript:return 11. javascript:return 12. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 13. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html