I enjoyed this. Of course, half of these things aren't quite like baroque instruments, but who cares? Acknowledge them for what they are and enjoy. I'm not fond of the term "6 course Baroque Mandolin", especially with its questionable use of capitalization (I would simply have said "6-course mandolino" or similar), and--I almost hate to say it, but--the term "'Baroque' Charango" strikes me as particularly dubious since I'm not aware of anybody having used the term "charango" in the baroque era, and his appears (from what I can see of the grainy video: I could be in error) to have geared tuners and a raised fingerboard extending onto the soundboard in very un-baroque fashion (at least regarding plucked gut-strung thingies).
Once again, I think the pretense to HIP in such cases is a wholly unnecessary and superfluous artifice. There's nothing wrong with playing any music you'd like on a charango and simply calling it a charango (or whatever its builder intended it be called). There's not even anything wrong with saying "Here is my charango and here is how it is similar to some things that were played in the baroque era..." Duo Ahlert & Schwab (who got some recent discussion on the lute list for including Weiss on their last CD) appreciate La Volta enough to have offered their CD an on-line plug a year or two ago (I thought I might have referred you to them at that time, Bill, but don't recall). Best, Eugene ----- Original Message ----- From: bill kilpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 6:41 am Subject: [VIHUELA] la follia - joyous family reunion > ensemble la volta: check out this and other videos > from this wonderful swiss group: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnzD4kmNuTo > > .. what pleasure to see relations from across the sea > reunited with the family once again. > > 7th heaven - bill > > http://earlymusiccharango.blogspot.com/ > > > ___________________________________________________________ > Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the > answer. Try it > now. > http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/ > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
