Thanks, Antonio. You answered my question a long time ago about how the
vihuela (and lute) appeared in the Don Quixote. Nice to hear from you
-s
On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 2:05 PM Antonio Corona
<[1]abcor...@cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
Well stated, Howard. I have NOT heard the recording, but I shall
order it, as i really like Nigel's interpretations of Francesco. I
seem to recall Nigel stating some time ago that the vihuela was an alto
in "a", so the instruments ought not sound the same. I shall find
out.
Maybe it’s time to be reminded that nobody has said the vihuela can’t be
distinguished from the lute in this recording. Ed asked which cuts were on
vihuela and which were on lute precisely because he HADN'T heard the recording,
something that got lost early in the discussion (and was lost on
Indeed, I agree. Which is why I put the similarity in sound down to
things other than how the two instruments were constructed - things
like the engineer, incorrectly and through ignorance, modifying the
sound so that the two instruments sound very similar.
Of course, it may be that
My knowledge of instrument making is limited but lute and vihuela construction
are somewhat different. Obviously the body shape is different but a lute has a
very thin soundboard with a fairly complicated barring system. According to
Alfonso Marin the vihuela has just two bars and a thicker
It may, of course, simply be down to a self-opionated sound/recording
engineeer. Some of these seem ignorant of what period instruments
actually sound like in the flesh and seek their own subjective
recording 'balance' and tonal qualities. They, in their ignorance, may
even think a
