The Silvery Sound of the Lute VS. the Modern Classical Guitar

Brandon Acker discusses a few of the major differences between the sound of the lute and the modern classical guitar. He then plays through the A section of Lachrimae Pavan by John Dowland. Which sound do you prefer?
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[@futureskyguitar6319]

Sounds very good 👍 I would love to hear more of this my friend. Att: Jo

[@yelassinacoulibaly]

The music of Faso is an inexhaustible source of sweetness.
It allows us to plunge deep inside ourselves and at the same time resonate with our fellow man, Yé Lassina Coulibaly

[@robertmadison2752]

Nice ornamentation on both versions of Lachrimae.

[@triorubino-michakoeppen9105]

wow, that guitar sounds so lovely, almost lute-like (because of the maple and the delicate way you play, of course)!
Lute lovely in its own way👍

[@mikegeld1280]

Can you please explain the exact tuning of the lute?

[@oldermusiclover]

read about Lutes in English mystery books but never knew what one sounded like

[@ΝίκοςΑργύρης-ω7υ]

Guitar without good nails , apogiado and vibrato is a total different instrument. For me guitar is just something special not even close to other instruments

[@Ayo.Ajisafe]

100%
Mini orchestra

[@M.tayefeh-2002]

💯

[@glen4326]

Where can I get a lute like yours, Brandon?

[@jean-yvesPrax]

The music of Dowland is so syncretic to the lute that we can make a guess that if Dowland would have known a modern guitar, he would probably have written different (and still beautiful) musics. Same for Bach with the piano... and Mozart with saxophone !!! 😉

[@alexnauda]

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[@LaraineAnne]

The lute is a big, cumbersome instrument and also quite fragile. Not to mention it’s harder to tune and harder to play than a guitar. It’s one of the hardest instruments of all to learn. So why are there so many lutenists in the world, many of them top-flight virtuosi capable of tackling The Great Weiss, especially since their likely audience is small compared to the audiences for pianists and violinists? It’s the sound of course. Only a lute sounds like a lute. Even the lute-harpsichord that Bach loved to play sounds nothing like a lute but very much like a harpsichord. Music lovers who haven’t discovered the lute are missing out on some really great music.

[@Googleusergoogleuser-b4p]

Why is it one of the hardest instruments to learn?

[@onceuponatime2010]

Juuust the topic Iii(emphasis of "I") was preoccupied with! Listening to lute pieces not only gives you different emotions than ones delivered from a guitar, bit it is basically a different facture at times. The sonority differs because of this sophisticated resonances, intentionally not clearly played some sounds in the texture. (By the way, me not in fond with low open strings on a guitar, they somehow irritate my guts and just don't sound nobly. I drop the 6th to low C (maximum), it works out pretty well for the C-major, c-minor stuff. But that romantic 7, 8, 9-string guitar doesn't seem to be a good idea. Nonetheless, I think lute, vihuela music sounds good on guitar in a way.
Another interesting pair I think is the harpsichord(and relatives)-piano. Though, the facture stays unchanged when transferring to the piano, the sonority is quite different as in lute-guitar pair, which is quite a different associative experience.
Thanks for your job, mate👍

[@SomeName_AlsoHandlesSucc]

Song??

[@jean-yvesPrax]

Lachrimae pavan from John Dowland, reduction for the lute of the song "Flow my tears"

[@bossanovaboy]

Well to over simplify it a lute is a cross-over between a 12 string guitar and a normal guitar. What brand of lute would you recommend if you were to buy one now?

[@chebghobbi]

Not really. Most of the courses on a 7-couse lute are tuned in unison, rather than the octave-tuning on most courses of a 12-string guitar.
There are a small number of decent mass-produced beginner lutes available (and lots of terrible ones), but if you have the money to do so it's much better to have an instrument made by a professional luthier. It's not possible to get high-quality mass-produced lutes the way you can with guitars.

[@carlostringhi7822]

Omg. You need to study so much

[@bossanovaboy]

@@carlostringhi7822 I said "to over-simplify" but anyway I would be glad to learn anything from anybody....