hi all, a friend of mine send this festival-information to me: http://www.tff-rudolstadt.de/english/e_htm/e_09/magic.htm
this years special: lutes "Chordophones, string instruments, are usually divided in two categories: bowed and plucked instruments. The best known bowed chordophone is the violin; the family of lutes belongs to the plucked chordophones. Att TFF09, we deal with the sub-family of short-neck lutes, i.e. those instruments whose neck is decidedly shorter than the body. The best known representative in Europe is the (medieval) lute which – as its relatives in China (pi’pa), Japan (biwa), Greece (laouto) or Hungary (mandora) – is most likely a progeny of the Arabian ‘ud whereas the baroque mandoline was developed later as a bastard between a classical lute of the Baroque period and the Neapolitan mandoline of the time. The Swedish mandora is a bass lute developed in the 1990s. The majority of these instruments share the same features: double strings, vaulted body, and a pegbox at right angle to the neck. They ask for virtuoso playing, and the visitors of TFF09 will get this from Géza Fábri (HUN), kobza Daniel Fredriksson (SWE), mandora Katsia Prakopchyk (BLR), baroque mandoline Adel Salameh (PAL), ’ud Dimitris Varelopoulos (GRE), laouto Zhong YuFeng (TWN), pi’pa, moon guitar special guests Naziha Azzouz (ALG), vocals Tünde Ivanovics (SER/HUN), vocals Michael Metzler (DEU), percussion To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
