At players' meetings, I try to make players of HIP lutes (of several kinds), acoustic guitars (of several kinds), and wandervogel lutes (of several kinds) mingle in playing from a modern score, e. g. dances from Susato, each one playing a single-line part.
One of the resulting effects that I aim at is that everybody accepts and appreciates the others as remote cousins of the same family. Besides, this kind of orchestra yields a lovely sound. We've never had luiti forti joining so far, but if one attends, he or she will be warmly welcomed. The LF is attractive for guitarists who don't want to change their RH technique (including nails). What I critisize, though, is the misguiding pretention that LiFi in lute tunings are modernized lutes, or that they are just as good as, or might replace, HIP lutes. What is modern with LF is that they have more volume, are easy to tune and easy to be kept in tune, particularly when single strung. What they lack, though, is the far-reaching tone of HIP lutes, and the rich sound of double courses over thin soundboards. To make a long story short, LiFi and HIP lutes are simply different animals. But there's no reason to deprecate each other. Mathias "Daniel Winheld" <dwinh...@comcast.net> schrieb: > You mean Chaconne a son mauvais gout. > > >Ever played the Chaconne a Son Gout? To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
