> > >Everything about it screams guitar to me: the sound, the nails, the >general approach. Yes, a guitar that looks a bit like a lute! > >
To me, everything about it screams liuto attiorbato, like a good many historical instruments in museums with fingerboard lengths under 60 cm and extension strings of 75-85 cm, played with nails the way historical Italian players would likely have played it. In the 90's Luca Pianca was playing instruments by the Swiss maker Luc Breton. I don't know if he still is. BTW, Giardino Armonico is playing here at A=392 (their D is the C on my wife's piano), so Luca's A would be G at A=440. The CD recording of the same concerto that Pianca and Giardino released in 1992 was at A=415. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Orange vous informe que cet e-mail a ete controle par l'anti-virus mail. Aucun virus connu a ce jour par nos services n'a ete detecte. Are any single strung? All of the existing liuto attiorbato, to my knowledge at least, are double strung on the fingerboard and most are double strung on the diapasons as well. I'm sure Luca is a decent guitarist, but his lute style reminds me of certain guitarist/lutenists of the 60s and 70s. Compromises are all very well but I think we do things a bit different nowadays --
