Looks kind of interesting, Maybe a good instrument for a guitarist who
what's to play Baroque or ren.lute, but is unwilling to cut off their nails.
Lets face it, most of a lutenist audience is made up of guitarists,and
most CD sales are probably bought by guitarists.
As a guitar and lute maker, I over the last two years, have been playing
only Baroque lute. The only time I play a guitar is to tune it up and ship
it out to a customer.
At the same time I know hundreds of guitarist. I try to turn them on
to my new found passion of Baroque lute, they seem very interested, but the
main obstacle is they are unwilling to cut off there nails, which to most
guitarist means ( death) they can never again play guitar, as the modern
concert guitar with nylon strings sounds horrible without nails.
This Luito Forte seems simply like a therobo with signal strings, or a
Bandora? What on earth can be patented about this thing?
Michael Thames
Luthier
www.ThamesClassicalGuitars.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Schall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Lautenliste" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 9:49 AM
Subject: Liuto Forte (was) right arm motion - thumb under
> 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 "Grundtöne" (basic tones?) than
> "Obertöne" (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
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