OR suitable for a guitarist who is NOT sick of the guitar repertoire! ...
and is happy with finger >nails.
ALL guitarists with brains get sick of their repertoire, eventually.
Roman, Did you go to the the demonstration of the liuto forte hat occurred
at the Met Museum a >year or 3 ago?
I missed it.
So did I, but I had a private demo 2 days before. I thought that the
instruments were uneven, some much better than others.
Andre asked me to be in the demo, but being not much of a player (especially
of someone else's music) I thought that Dan Swenberg should do it, and so
the honor went to him.
Andre himself is a very good composer for his instrument, sort of
chopinesque neo-baroque.
RT
-----Original Message-----
From: Roman Turovsky <r.turov...@verizon.net>
To: Lutelist <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Sat, Dec 19, 2009 11:51 am
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Liuto forte
It is a single-strung lute and guitar hybrid designed by Andre Burguete,
that aproximates lute sound while purporting to have the volume of the
guitar. It uses nylon overspun with fine steel wire, and has some
interesting and useful peculiarities in the bridge and soundboard
construction.
Fixed metal frets are supposedly less dampening to the sound (negligibly).
This technology might yield a nice and loud theorbo in ET.
But one really misses the overtone palette of double strings.
It is a very suitable instrument for a guitarist who is sick of the guitar
repertoire, but is unwilling to part with his nails.
http://www.liuto-forte.com/
There are a number of notable converts to it: Oliver Holzenburg, Luciano
Contini et al.
RT
----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Winheld" <dwinh...@comcast.net>
To: <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 11:31 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Liuto forte
Alright, I'll bite- What in God's name is Liuto Forte? (I must have
been out of the office for this one)
thanks, Dan
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