>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
In _The Performance of the Basso Continuo in Italian Baroque Music_ UMI Research Press Ann Arbor Michigan by Tharald Borgir, it is stated that the archlute increased in popularity after about 1680 because of the introduction of wound strings which it louder and, as it was more agile than the theorbo, more practical for continuo. cheers, -- Ed Durbrow Saitama, Japan http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
