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David Houck

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Now here's an instrument I like
« on: January 11, 2019, 07:16:49 PM »
Just needs to be Alembicized.


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Re: Now here's an instrument I like
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2019, 08:46:11 PM »
Very cool, I enjoyed that, thanks for posting!
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Re: Now here's an instrument I like
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2019, 02:30:30 AM »
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Re: Now here's an instrument I like
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2019, 05:05:28 AM »
beautiful instrument
Not just a bass, this is an Alembic!

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Re: Now here's an instrument I like
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2019, 06:06:17 AM »

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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Re: Now here's an instrument I like
« Reply #5 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.

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Re: Now here's an instrument I like
« Reply #6 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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Re: Now here's an instrument I like
« Reply #7 on: February 27, 2019, 07:32:16 PM »
Probably much more $ than an Alembic too...

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Re: Now here's an instrument I like
« Reply #8 on: February 27, 2019, 07:47:10 PM »
Probably much more $ than an Alembic too ...

Especially the early ones with the green LEDs.

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Re: Now here's an instrument I like
« Reply #9 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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Re: Now here's an instrument I like
« Reply #10 on: February 28, 2019, 08:41:14 AM »
Talk about neck dive!

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