Ben And His Theorbo

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  • Опубліковано 29 жов 2024

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  • @kanayamasound
    @kanayamasound 5 років тому +6

    This is the kind of stuff that keeps me playing music. Weird and wonderful instruments from every corner of the globe!
    God bless from Japan.

  • @flochartingham2333
    @flochartingham2333 5 років тому

    Thank you to Benjamin Stein for making the world a better place and contributing something beautiful for us all to enjoy.

  • @Ranchorita
    @Ranchorita Рік тому

    This is wonderful, and now I want to go to the Tafelmusik summer program. Thank you for the information! Also am newly obsessed with Theorbo - it's such a lovely instrument.

  • @cippigna
    @cippigna 3 роки тому

    Thanks for sharing with me the video, it's very nice!

  • @kennewicksheri
    @kennewicksheri 5 років тому +1

    Just heard of this instrument today ...
    Amazing..
    thank you for teaching me today

  • @candacemagner2544
    @candacemagner2544 11 років тому +1

    Beautiful film! Great playing, great simple explanation of the instruments. So glad to have these examples when someone asks -- "hey, what--what IS that thing?!!"

  • @DJFcam
    @DJFcam 11 років тому +1

    This instrument is my all time favorite instrument. I can't play it, but I could sit and listen to it being played, for hours. It seems the instrument that time forgot, but now it's making a come back. What's old is new, again.

    • @andreasbyczkowski3435
      @andreasbyczkowski3435 5 років тому

      Well said!!! Maybe the theorbo’s beauty can also (momentarily)make you forget time and it’s worries?

  • @goodun6081
    @goodun6081 5 років тому +2

    To make/be able to play an instrument that is bigger and louder; the never-ending dream of all luthiers and musicians. I'm not sure if I should be sad, or glad, that no one had yet thought of the idea of metal resonator cones back when this instrument was designed!

  • @davidhillewig
    @davidhillewig 10 років тому +1

    Wish there were more people like you :-)
    Greetings from a fellow musician, belgium

  • @Jherekwhippet13
    @Jherekwhippet13 7 років тому +4

    Love the sound of the Theorbo. Sounds black and turquoise.

  • @StephenS-2024
    @StephenS-2024 5 років тому

    A fantastic choice for any crisis.
    Seriously, thanks Ben. I needed to hear that at the end.

  • @Unidente02
    @Unidente02 5 років тому

    There is room on the top for 4 pick ups, maybe even a whammy bar. But seriously, I love the sound of the theorbo and the lute.

  • @Susana066
    @Susana066 11 років тому

    Lovely Ben, so great to see you on another voyage of your musical odyssey, I think you underplay the years you've been a musician. I remember be impressed with your playing over 30 years ago. :) But that might make us both sound old.

  • @DuoContinuo
    @DuoContinuo 8 років тому

    Hi Benjamin,
    haha, i identified this Magherini sound after the first chords ;-)) !
    respect and congratulations, very nice video as an introduction for this instrument, making depending you on it very quickly.
    With a kind invitation to our channel featering the Chitarrone in d´ (between the Tiorbino and the Tiorba, not a French Solo Tiorba, having different proportions).
    Kindest regards from Berlin - S.

  • @zzyyj2
    @zzyyj2 5 років тому

    I like this video very much! Fantastic!

  • @SonjaBeets
    @SonjaBeets 10 років тому

    Thank you much Ben, how lovely... you are a musician of my heart! And I love the Theorbo. I am composer and wrote a piece for Theorbo but now I play it myself on Celt-harp because it is not to play on Theorbo. As a composer I have to know more about this instrument, and I want to write another piece. However when I play it now on my harp than I still hear the Theorbo. Your information is from value but I have to know more i I want to write correctly for this instrument....

  • @fiedelmina
    @fiedelmina 8 років тому +1

    I'm in love. Oh dang, he wears a marriage ring ;-)

  • @benjaminsteinmusic6606
    @benjaminsteinmusic6606  11 років тому +2

    Thanks for the kind comments, folks! Next video - how to take a theorbo on a streetcar in Toronto during rush hour.

    • @BillPolhemus
      @BillPolhemus 7 років тому

      I'd love to build one. Do you have any recommendations as to a source for plans?

    • @boblob2003
      @boblob2003 4 роки тому

      @@BillPolhemus The Lute Society in the UK sells a set of plans. Also, if you search many of the European museums with sizable collections of early instruments, many of the sell drawings.

  • @fnersch3367
    @fnersch3367 6 років тому

    Very inspiring video. Several years ago I bought a so-called "bass lute". Its has 12 strings: 6 fretted & 6 open diapasons. It is really a harp guitar in the shape of a lute. It lacks resonance and is quite heavy.

  • @euledj79
    @euledj79 5 місяців тому

    I like that Ben doesn't care at all about that huge crack but most I like is that you can immediately hear the typical Ivo Magherini sound. If it is a result from his -also typical- cypress bodies?

  • @ccooper8785
    @ccooper8785 5 років тому +2

    Damn !!! Never thought of that. For sale 1 sports car, 1 midlife-crisis owner.....

  • @noseonscent1935
    @noseonscent1935 5 років тому

    Fantastic

  • @prepecenihleb1679
    @prepecenihleb1679 5 років тому

    Video games totally are a viable career choice also the theorbo is probably the objectively best instrument ever followed closely by the hurdy gurdy

  • @davidbenefiel9289
    @davidbenefiel9289 4 роки тому

    How about more videos?

  • @craigsibley8964
    @craigsibley8964 3 роки тому

    I tried to contact your website, but it appears to be down. Would love to chat sometime! A fellow artist/musician named Craig!

  • @boboala1
    @boboala1 5 років тому +1

    I have degrees in music and remember its' mention in my music appreciation text, but thought this instrument was long ago extinct! Apparently not. Enjoyed your playing & singing, Ben. Oh, and where on Earth did you find/get this instrument?

  • @soulflyer
    @soulflyer 5 років тому

    Nice! Did you modify the stringing of the theorbo? I see there are more pegholes, but no sign of extra slots in the bridge and nut.

  • @frederickjohnson2116
    @frederickjohnson2116 7 років тому

    Where could you purchase such an instrument?

  • @lucijajurjane8576
    @lucijajurjane8576 8 років тому

    Could you tell me please who is the author of music in beggining and how it is called?

    • @benjaminstein3222
      @benjaminstein3222 8 років тому +2

      +Lūcija Jurjāne - Hello there - the opening of the video is improvised. It's a short set of variations on a descending bass line in the major mode; scale degrees 1-7-6-5, repeated. It's a common bass pattern, identified in sources as a chaconne or passacaglia. It was a "riff" found in many different compositions, and any lute or keyboard player had to be able to extemporize melodies over a chaconne and other similar bass line "standards". Thank you for your interest - Ben S

    • @lucijajurjane8576
      @lucijajurjane8576 8 років тому

      +Benjamin Stein ah...that's clear now :) beautiful!

  • @vaclavhanusekv1717
    @vaclavhanusekv1717 7 років тому

    What is the name of that ´´music, music...´´ peace?

  • @WangBatTumenjargal
    @WangBatTumenjargal 8 років тому

    too bad it's not a course string like the lute