Looks like they're talking about the modernized version, http://www.liuto-forte.com/EN/index.cfm
Enjoy, Grant On Jan 26, 2008 7:22 PM, Ed Durbrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is very nice performance, but is it really a lute? It said "Liuto > Forte in E" in the notes to the video. Sounds much more like a guitar > to me and it looked like he had it tuned in guitar intervals by the > chord shapes he was using. But yeah, there is no reason one could not > do that with a regular lute in regular lute tuning. (But it is a lot > harder to play 9th chords :-/) > > On Jan 26, 2008, at 10:40 PM, Thomas Schall wrote: > > > just to show how flexible the instrument could be used: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GraFh-booyc > > Ed Durbrow > Saitama, Japan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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<http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html> > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Grant Green - www.contrabass.com Heckelphone, Sarrusophone & Interesting Instruments --
