In a way this simply incorporates some angelique aspects into a baroque lute. RT
______________ Roman M. Turovsky http://turovsky.org http://polyhymnion.org > What the site doesn't mention is Bourgete own tuning for baroque type. He > retains the tuning of the first 5 courses > FDAFD > but begins diatonic descent right thereafter > CBAGFEDC, if one wants to try this on a 13 course lute. > With a 16 string liuto forte one would get further > BAG (sufficient for Bach lute music as written, without transpositions). > RT >> That's a newly developed instrument. Would be very interesting if there >> would be a higher interest in new music. For early musicians it should >> be avoided like the devil IMHO. >> It's single strung, formed similar to a lute, has machine heads instead >> of pegs and developed to produce rather "Grundt? (basic tones?) than >> "Obert? (resonances?) and esp. to be louder than a lute or guitar. >> >> see http://www.liutoforte.com/ >> >> The instruemnts are very well build and sound quite good but not like a >> lute - maybe it can be described it would sound like a better guitar - >> closer to a parlour guitar than to a modern classical guitar. >> >> Best wishes >> Thomas > > >
