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Title: Now here's an instrument I like
Post by: David Houck on January 11, 2019, 07:16:49 PM
Just needs to be Alembicized.

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Post by: allgood on January 11, 2019, 08:46:11 PM
Very cool, I enjoyed that, thanks for posting!
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Post by: pauldo on January 12, 2019, 02:30:30 AM
Super  8)
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Post by: mario_farufyno on January 12, 2019, 05:05:28 AM
beautiful instrument
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Post by: edwardofhuncote on January 12, 2019, 06:06:17 AM

Quote from: David Houck on January 11, 2019, 07:16:49 PM
Just needs to be Alembicized.

I was just thinking... it took the same inventive mindset to make a thing like that, whether late 16th Century Italy, or a mid 20th Century California counterpart. Solving little problems with artistic solutions. That's what they were doing.  :)
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Post by: cozmik_cowboy on January 12, 2019, 08:28:24 AM
What is that, about a 78" scale??  Yeah, you probably won't want your theorboist to be dancing around much on stage.

The first college I attended, finding themselves in financial trouble, tried to negotiate a deal to share the campus with the School Of The Lute (which taught/teaches both playing and lutherie); they came to do a concert & played many varieties of lute - but nothing like that thing!  Way cool - but I'm thinking a harp guitar is easier to get across town on a bus.

Peter (Who has yet to find a spell-checker that recognizes "luthier" or lutherie")
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Post by: hankster on January 12, 2019, 08:35:07 AM
I saw one of these in action at a Tafelmusik show here in Toronto a couple of years ago. I had no idea before that that such a thing even existed. Fascinating. Thanks Dave!
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Post by: darnellbass on February 27, 2019, 07:32:16 PM
Probably much more $ than an Alembic too...
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Post by: David Houck on February 27, 2019, 07:47:10 PM
Quote from: darnellbass on February 27, 2019, 07:32:16 PM
Probably much more $ than an Alembic too ...

Especially the early ones with the green LEDs.
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Post by: jazzyvee on February 28, 2019, 02:10:19 AM


One of those lutes appeared in a tv ad campain for Royal London Insurance.
Starts at 0:47
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Post by: lbpesq on February 28, 2019, 08:41:14 AM
Talk about neck dive!

Bill, tgo