IIRC (from what Bob told me several years ago), he makes a good chunk of his living teaching electric guitar to German teenagers, so presumably he has some familiarity with that instrument as well.
Guy -----Original Message----- From: Sauvage Valéry [mailto:sauvag...@orange.fr] Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 11:39 AM To: Lute List Subject: [LUTE] Re: Dilettantism Robert Barto is also playing romantic guitar. V. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Hind" <anthony.h...@noos.fr> To: "Mathias Rösel" <mathias.roe...@t-online.de>; "lute List" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 8:09 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Dilettantism Le 7 févr. 09 à 19:38, Mathias Rösel a écrit : > "Anthony Hind" <anthony.h...@noos.fr> schrieb: >> Renaissance lute, and Miguel Serdoura on a 13c J-barred lute. > > Note that barring has become an operative trait, whereas bass rider vs. > swan neck may go unmentioned >8) > -- > Mathias > Oh well, that was but one detail that Miguel told me personally, he particularly thought was important to his sound. Yes, his lute is a rider lute, and I am glad to see that you no longer seem to think that the one automatically entails the other. Also he uses nylgut strings, and does not play very far back from the rose, in a position closer to the Jacques Gautier painting, than the Charles Mouton one. And I dare say there are many other things that I have forgotten to add, but the main point was that at present he plays one lute and sticks to the Baroque repertoire. Perhaps he is the only one to do that. Oh what about Robert Barto, I don't know how many lutes he has, but he now seems to pretty much stick to Weiss. Anthony > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html