Well done, Arto! You manage your new 11-course well. It is a different
animal, I agree, in many ways.
The sound is really quite
rough.
Hard to judge from YouTube, but yesterday my fellow lute player in the
Maria Vespers brought his new Zoom-Q3, and I saw camera and microphone
are all in the
Dear Arto
I found that varnished treble gut (which I think Sofracob may
be) was more scratchy than plain or oiled gut; but also some makes are
slightly rounder sounding (Baldock Cathedral, in particular) or
brighter than others. The bright ones tend to emphasize
