I have all these recordings of the lute-harpsichord and one thing has bothered me--the baroque lute has octave strings for the bass and the lute harpsichord almost never replicates this so it sounds more like a theorbo. Still fun though. There is even a guy on ebay selling conversion kits to make your regular harpsichord into a lute harpsichord.
--Sterling From: howard posner <howardpos...@ca.rr.com> To: lute-cs.dartmouth.edu <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 9:22 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: BWV 998 On Oct 19, 2011, at 2:09 AM, William Samson wrote: > I have heard that 'luth o cembal' was perhaps a keyboard instrument > that sounded like a lute - I've even heard it suggested that it was a > harpsichord strung in gut, but I very much doubt the feasibility of > such an instrument - It would be a nightmare to keep in tune, as we > lutenists know only too well. Sorry I don't have any sources for this > information - just speculative hearsay I'm afraid. Maybe somebody has > some more concrete information? You can't get much more concrete than Youtube, Source of All Things. You can find Gergely Sarkozy's recordings of Bach on a lute harpsichord by going here and nosing around: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygFXZ-L7lHM&feature=related Kim Heindel's recording of BWV 998 starts here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gcgFMXbVNc&feature=related and Robert Hill: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXezz_5J6MA&feature=results_main&playnex t=1&list=PLF158FD2CAE1868BC -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html --
