but what do you wish then? short, percussion-like, marimba-like bass? that's pretty easy to have. longer basses are sweet--look how much sweeter a baroque lute sounds compared to the renaissance lute. or how sweeter a 65 cm lute sounds compared to the 59 cm one. about starting to mention wound basses: In the same time, who said the bass have to be wound? Long gut or artificial gut is what anyone would preffer. No need to reflect on the funny tember wound strings. They sound good enough on a short v-lenght renaissance lute or on student lute for lenght of vibration, but that's for learning purposes. about the "grand piano" with sustain pedal pressed sound: hehe, play your lute softly. there are places when the bass should be expressive, but that's not Always (as you may know:) So, no one is arguing "gut or wound". You started to talk about wound. I've never heard about archilute with wound basses (forgive my ignorance if it is a common practice). If such thing exists, then, man, you will have a "grand piano" sound!!lol
> Dear lutenists > > > i'm not talking about "the beauty of the bass" (whatever that means),=20 > > what i talk about is the fact that most of us, lute players, preffer > > a LONGER VIBRATING TONE. > > I strongly doubt that! Many, perhaps most of us(?), used some time ago > the wound pyramid basses. Those modern guitar style strings have very > long vibrating tone. And most of us(?) wanted to get rid of long > vibrating tones, which made an archlute or theorbo sound like a grand > piano played with pedal down... > > Gut and its modern imitators behave much better. > > Arto > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > ------------------------------------------ Faites un voeu et puis Voila ! www.voila.fr --
