#archlute

[prokopetz]

The 17th Century was a fun time for music because for a while there instrument makers just lost their fucking minds

[lesser-known-composers]

Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787) : Adagio in D minor (Drexel manuscript)

Florence Bolton, viole de gambe | Benjamin Perrot, archiluth

[gasparodasalo]

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Attilio Ariosti (1666-1729) - Lezione I for Viola d'amore and Continuo in E-flat Major, I. Allegro. Performed by Thomas Georgi, viola d'amore, Lucas Harris, archlute, and Joëlle Morton, viola da gamba, on period instruments.

[readingreddingread]

Look at this instrument, it's called the archlute

[mrbacf]

Giovanni Zamboni, Ciaccona - Simone Pansolin, archlute

[lutes-of-the-world]

My favorite old Tumblr post was a picture of an archlute with the caption, "Newtypes only."

To illustrate:

[elizabethplaid]

“The coolest LUTE I’ve ever seen!” - Brandon Acker’s archlute

Does a lute count as an unusual instrument? Well, this one’s an archlute, so maybe that helps it qualify for my “unusual instruments” tag. I really love the sympathetic resonance that the extra strings give. I’m very fond of sustained chords and reverb in music, so having that built in to the instrument is impressive to me. Like he says, it gives an echo like it’s in a cathedral.

Acker mentions an archlute is like a “theorbo”, which is another instrument I hadn’t yet heard of. If I find fun videos of that, I’ll post them later. This one’s just really nice for now.

[if-it-isnt-cello]

Check out Daniel Estrem’s YT channel: filled with music from classical to pop (including a huge playlist of the Beatles), arranged mainly by Daniel himself for guitar, lute, archlute, ukulele and who knows what else