Dear baroque lutenists,
in the ms. Barbe there is an interesting piece "Le Perier de Mouton" (p.
224-225). Does anyone have some information of that piece? Do you think
it is a (strange) Chaconne? What could be the reference "Le Perier"?
Some person or incident?
According to Peter's (wonderf
Dear Anthony,
Thank you for this. In essence all I'm suggesting is that we should
look at the evidence of what size and sort (eg barring) of instrument
was used for a particular repertoire and then see what sounds result,
rather than starting from the sort of sound we personally l
Dear Martyn
I must appologize for not having seen your message; I actually wrote a
subpart to my mail to Ed (on sustain, clarity and with modern hard thin tables)
which was a note to you, and saying something not completely unlike what you
say here; but then I removed it, as it was very
