I have of course heard both his theorbo and his vihuela live on several occasions, and I can guarantee you all that his vihuela is louder. You will probably hear from the recording that his vihuela has a tremendous attack, which makes it penetrate easily through large ensembles.
mvh Are > Nice, but there was no theorbo for comparison, not to mention that this is a > recording, which is not a good measurement tool of instrumental volume. > RT > ________________ > http://polyhymnion.org > > >>> "Vihuela is too soft to be used in ensembles..." > >>> > >>> What are the known historic parameters of the vihuela that determine that > >>> it > >>> MUST be soft? > >>> > >>> David Cameron > >> So far the vihuela industry has not produced a loud variety. So the > >> situations remains as it is, until this happens. > >> RT > > > > The vihuela industry most certainly has! Norwegian lutenist Thomas Boysen > > plays a vihuela by Lourdes Uncilla-Moreno which is actually louder than > > his theorbo, and his theorbo is certainly not soft... You can listen to > > two examples here: > > > > http://www.thomasboysen.de/i_arbeid.html > > > > > > mvh > > Are Vidar Hansen > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > $0 Web Hosting with up to 120MB web space, 1000 MB Transfer > 10 Personalized POP and Web E-mail Accounts, and much more. > Signup at www.doteasy.com > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
