William Hamilton Bird was a British cembalo player who lived and worked in India in the 18th century. He published a book with Hindustani Airs (Oriental Miscellany, 1789) set for cembalo. I arranged some of these pieces for lute and played these in India last November. David
******************************* David van Ooijen [1]davidvanooi...@gmail.com [2]www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* On 6 February 2018 at 03:59, Tristan von Neumann <[3]tristanvonneum...@gmx.de> wrote: [4]https://soundcloud.com/tristan-von-neumann/john-bull-fantasy -x-rag-bhairav-dut-khayal Listen to this and doubt me no more - you would look foolish. Why did they still have these weird archicembali around, where you can play microtones?.... duh! :) Now you know. To get on or off this list see list information at [5]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. mailto:davidvanooi...@gmail.com 2. http://www.davidvanooijen.nl/ 3. mailto:tristanvonneum...@gmx.de 4. https://soundcloud.com/tristan-von-neumann/john-bull-fantasy-x-rag-bhairav-dut-khayal 5. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html