Although I'm sure the LSA is a terrific event, and kudos for having the pros weigh in, their are several events in Europe that are also very good. Also, some European makers don't ravel to the USA very often.
Of course the best tasting event is is in our music studio, where we hook up two $3000 mics and go in another room and do a "blind" tasting of the instruments. The results are always dramatic and surprising. No matter how impartial you are, blind testing is the way to go. And any living room will do, you just need to find the lutes and the mics. Without going into details, it is pretty safe to say that there are a lot of good makers and that the setup counts for a lot of the sound quality. dt At 12:54 PM 11/14/2009, you wrote: > For those of you into comparing lutes, the best event is the LSA's Lute > Tasting. This is always a part of the festivities at our seminar at > Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio - end of June in > 2010. Last time there were 2 sessions - one for renaissance and one > for baroque and the same player played the same piece on all the > similar lutes (I think it was O'Dette and Barto mostly), giving their > opinions on the instrument. This is a golden opportunity for luthiers > to show their wares to a lot of pprospective buyers in one palce. > Nancy > > To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
