The definition of a lute player is an instrumentalist who's always one
instrument short. For me, the current missing instrument is a d-minor
theorbo.
What should be the specs? I know there a few of you playing such
beasts (Benjamin?).
I'm looking for enough chromatics in the bass to play Bach
David,
I had a conversation with Stephen Stubbs the other night (us having a great
deal in common by virtue of our both having owned theorbos with fingerboard
lengths close to 100cm, but a great deal less in common by virtue of our
respective abilities on said theorbos) and the subject of
A subject close to my heart!
Precisely as Burris explains - and as my own readings of Baron,
Mattheson, and Weiss would confirm - the d-minor theorbo did not have
a re-entrant top f'. I am not aware of any source that backs this up,
although of course absence of evidence is not evidence of
