Franz, you deserve a compliment. You say you LF has a good tone, but of course you are aware that the player makes the tone. A good player can make any instrument sound good, as a bad player can make the best possible instrument sound bad. Perhaps nowhere more true than on a lute.
Thanks so much David :-) but don't compliment me too much - I might get encouraged to enerve you and waste even more of my time (which should be spent otherwise) on the list... you are of course right, but not in every respect: I have NOT been able to make the LF sound much (though somwhat...) lute-like by using fingernails. It sounds lute-like ONLY with a certain finger pad technique which I found out by experimenting. I have to admit that this lute-like sound is somewhere between (romantic, finger-pad played) guitar and my double course (synthetic string) lute, but given my alternatives, I LOVED that sound because it seems to my ears a little more singing and warm than my Renaissance lute. Not very original-minded, I know... And, as I said, maybe the lute sounds best if it sounds "as it should..." as Mathias seems to suggest... I will love to take opportunities to have a try with better lutes than mine. Best Franz On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:59 PM, "Mathias Roesel" <mathias.roe...@t-online.de> wrote: > some single-strung chitarroni with synthetical strings may come close, Or single strung archlutes with synthetics? [1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_FkwK24ZYY (So much nicer than their Dowland.) David - in hiding for mentioning S. and K. on the list ;-) -- ******************************* David van Ooijen davidvanooi...@gmail.com www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* To get on or off this list see list information at [2]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_FkwK24ZYY 2. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
