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.
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?!!"
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.
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!
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.
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.
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....
@@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.
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.
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?
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?
+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
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.
Thank you to Benjamin Stein for making the world a better place and contributing something beautiful for us all to enjoy.
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.
Thanks for sharing with me the video, it's very nice!
Just heard of this instrument today ...
Amazing..
thank you for teaching me today
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?!!"
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.
Well said!!! Maybe the theorbo’s beauty can also (momentarily)make you forget time and it’s worries?
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!
Wish there were more people like you :-)
Greetings from a fellow musician, belgium
Love the sound of the Theorbo. Sounds black and turquoise.
A fantastic choice for any crisis.
Seriously, thanks Ben. I needed to hear that at the end.
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.
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.
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.
I like this video very much! Fantastic!
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....
I'm in love. Oh dang, he wears a marriage ring ;-)
Thanks for the kind comments, folks! Next video - how to take a theorbo on a streetcar in Toronto during rush hour.
I'd love to build one. Do you have any recommendations as to a source for plans?
@@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.
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.
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?
Damn !!! Never thought of that. For sale 1 sports car, 1 midlife-crisis owner.....
Fantastic
Video games totally are a viable career choice also the theorbo is probably the objectively best instrument ever followed closely by the hurdy gurdy
How about more videos?
I tried to contact your website, but it appears to be down. Would love to chat sometime! A fellow artist/musician named Craig!
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?
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.
Where could you purchase such an instrument?
Could you tell me please who is the author of music in beggining and how it is called?
+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
+Benjamin Stein ah...that's clear now :) beautiful!
What is the name of that ´´music, music...´´ peace?
Henry Purcell - "music for a while"
too bad it's not a course string like the lute