On 04/10/2013 07:17, John Lenti wrote: > Speaking as a full-time theorbo player, I feel that I can say with some > authority that the theorbo cannot be held comfortably by anyone ever. What > you do is you play near the bridge and suffer, pop some Advil, suffer some > more, pop a Demerol, more massage, claw at the strings nearish the bridge, > Demerol, suffer, stretch, suffer, take a month off, and then start over. The > theorbo is out to get you, and it will win.
I bring up John’s memorable (and, alas, accurate) 5-year-old remarks because the current issue of Early Music America has a feature story on the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, which includes a picture of him playing a concerto for electric theorbo, an instrument I had never imagined, but which looks like John’s ergonomic dream instrument. On to victory... To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
