Pardon - I was thinking theorbo in my previous reply. I have never tried vihuela, but maybe what I said was valid anyway.
At 07:49 AM 11/12/2005, you wrote: >Am Freitag, 11. November 2005 11:58 schrieben Sie: > > > This is what puzzles me a bit as I can't see the advantage of having a long > > string length for accompanying. Maybe I am mistaken, but I would have > > thought the purpose of a long string length would be to tune to a lower > > pitch. Such an instrument would play the lowest part in consort as in the > > Valderrabano as you say. > >one of the advantages of a longer string length is the volume I suppose ... > >regards >Thomas > > >-- >Thomas Schall >Niederhofheimer Weg 3 >D-65843 Sulzbach >06196/74519 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >ab 15.7. neue Adresse: >Wiesentalstrasse 41 >CH-8355 Aadorf >++41 (0) 52 365 00 04 > >http://www.lautenist.de >http://www.lautenist.de/bduo/ >http://www.lautenist.de/gitarre/ >http://www.tslaute.de/weiss/ > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html www3.sympatico.ca/echapin
