It is very trendy now to strum the theorbo. I attended a concert by Les
Arts Florrissant recently and Thomas Dunford was strumming away merrily a
lot of the time.
Notwithstanding my passion for the guitar I feel this may be a slightly
non-historical practice. Each to his own last is the saying which springs
to mind (last in this sense being a shoemaker's model according to my
dictionary).
Monica
----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Gaherty" <ge...@gaherty.ca>
To: "Lutelist" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 1:28 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Bartolotti's continuo treatise
On 27/02/14 3:43 AM, William Samson wrote:
Not that I know anything about it, but the name 'chittarone' seems
to
give the game away. The very idea has me salivating! Mighty
rasgueados on the theorbo, anyone?
I attended a concert by the Venice Baroque Orchestra in Santa Barbara
recently and was surprised by the amount of rasgueado strumming by their
theorbo player. He even had a pick guard installed on his instrument!
Geoff
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