"Martyn Hodgson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Weiss does mention that playing with nails is acceptable on the theorbo but > not on the lute (I don't have the exact quote to hand)
In his letter to Mattheson he said that the theorbo yielded a somewhat rude sound as it was ordinairement (usually, ordinarily) played with nails. From which we may conclude that Weiss had nails long enough to play the theorbo since that was one of his duties at court. Which makes me wonder as for his playing the lute... Mathias > LGS-Europe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Perhaps OT on the lute-list either way, but I mentioned Sor and Giuliani, > >> not baroque guitar music. Neither did I write one cannot play one kind of > >> music with or without nails, just that you may notice the differences. > > > > Well it's simply because of your pre-conditioned approach to their music. > > You know (or you believe you know) that Sor wasn't using nails (i.e. > > because > > he or somebody else wrote about this or whatever). > > > > Did Piccinini, Castaldi, Robert de Visee, Weiss etc etc use nails or no > > nails? Can you spot that through their music? I very much doubt you can. > > I'm sure I cannot. I mentioned Sor and Giuliani, not theorbo music. > > David To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
