Archguitar

[Fapswitch]

Great video--thank you! I will be checking out your Website for more, Rob.

[magocacana]

excellent sound!! as a guitar builder I'd like to try to build something like that

[taboitazik]

génial!!!

[2royplayer]

Now that is a axe! You could hurt someone with that thing if you did not watch out.

[Mr98giuliano]

very interesting instument !!!!!!!!

[hallobaaaby]

you should use harp semitone levers to have full chromatic scale on the bass strings :D

thanks for vid!

[bgtavares]

Rob!!!

How have you been? Thanks for sharing that! Amazing instrument and nice to hear your voice!

[classicbanjoRM]

@bgtavares

I'm fine, thanks. Still busy with the banjo, but I have a 13c lute arriving early next year from Malcolm Prior, which I'm very much looking forward to getting, especially for the music of Weiss. Thanks for your nice comment on my de Visee video too :-)

Rob - from my banjo channel

[megadeth22885]

these instruments went extinct for a reason... the cost to make, the extended neck for the second headstock would be rather weak... tuning would be a bitch

[BalcarresGuy]

Cost is a factor, but the neck extension is strong and tuning no problem. Because you don't play on the bass strings with your left hand, they stay in tune really well.

And just because something becomes extinct does not denigrate the instrument. It was useful for its time - and not many of us can say that!

[ceadachrua]

@BalcarresGuy exactly..

the Gaelic harp died out despite being one of the most important instruments in it's culture for many centuries.

[sbliss554]

@BalcarresGuy I heard from my Classical guitar professor that lutes have a habit of breaking down a lot. Does this instrument have the same problem?

[classicbanjoRM]

@sbliss554

That's funny. In fact it is usually lute PLAYERS who break down a lot.

Seriously, I only had the instrument for three days when the luthier was passing through town. Haven't seen it since. I've never known a lute to break. They are very robust instruments.

[passingbynight]

I think BalcarresGuy can teach you how to tune a guitar.

[jessyquedens]

@megadeth22885 Tuning any kind of lute or guitar is a piece of cake if you play the harp. (Mine has only 33 strings, but an orchestral harp has 47.) As for extinct, I notice quite a few players are picking up the harp-guitar, lute-guitar, theorbo, and so on.

[eschelar]

Brilliant! It's so exciting to see a real instrument being played to show a fragment of time long past. Thanks to the people posting, to the lutenist and to Wolfgang Emmerich for taking on such an ambitious project!!!

[alligatorgal]

wow that thing is huge! where would you store something like that!? LOL

nice playing though

[01herman]

Surprise I use the same tuning nearly on my arch lute! More or less the Idea of Brescianello.

[Blake12000]

Fascinating instrument Rob. Thanks for the informative video and the great playing! The tuning is very unusual but the sound is excellent. Thanks for sharing the video!

Jamie

[oldedrum]

I have a wonderful CD on the Dorian label titled;

ARCHGUITAR RENAISSANCE

w/ Peter Blanchette on Archguitar.

---Perhaps you've heard of this sir?

[BalcarresGuy]

No, I haven't. So much music, so little time...

[orion777temp]

thanks ,is on my play list now

[arieldickman]

fantastic!!

Rob Mackillop is the best!!

[haimcito]

great video,lovely playng lovely music and instrument. greetings, haim.

[cjwaywell]

Very interesting Video I would runa mile away from it...lol. You play well. I would hate to think what an instrument like that would cost. Lovely sound I suspect you will be a member of the Lute Society with skills like that.

[654321654321]

thanks for this video.

great instrument and music.

[BettyClare]

Wow, this is an amazing instrument! I studied voice at Napier when you were teaching there - good times! Do you have any CDs?

[BalcarresGuy]

Hi BettyClare. Napier seems many years ago now.

I do have CDs, but not of this instrument. Check out rmguitar. Dot. Info

[gkertsopoulos]

Congradulations for the construction and also the performance, outastanding and a favorite of course, best regards, Yorgos

[Gealach74]

Ok.... by Granata.

beautiful

[Gealach74]

excellent !lovely instrument...

..by the way what is ne name of the piece at the beggining?

thanks

[azalais]

Thank you so much Rob! What a wonderful addition to sound spectrum! You and the luthier must be very proud of this experiment.

[rburmester]

hey Rob! what a beautiful instrument. Great playing as usual!! ;)

[kaleido00]

Great Experiment!

[random331]

Very nice.

[BalcarresGuy]

Thanks. I wish I had more time to get used to the instrument - just a few days. I hope someone takes on the instrument and explores it properly. Rob