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About me:: Laid off from my copyediting gig in Dec. '08, I get to be a musician all the time nowadays, the din punctuated from time to time during the day by quixotic bouts of sifting through irrelevant entries on Monster and JournalismJobs.com. In love with early music, that of the 17th century in especial, since I was a kid in high school, I finally started in the 1990s to acquire proper replica instruments -- the most important still being my first: a guitar in the style of the Voboam atelier by Martin Turner -- and have yet to look back. (What the hell does that mean?) Also an art-rock type who in another geological era trod the parlously sticky boards of the stage at the storied (and now defunct) CBGB; defying the debility of my early dotage, I issued a retrospective album of my ’80s albums in May '10 -- album press site www.nogreatlost.com -- and am at present essaying to complete recording on a set of new stuff with a view to releasing the same in late '11 or early '12. Wildly successful at all I do. (Not.)

To hear a (sorta clunky and sonically crude, but, oh, well) 1994 recording of me performing the Em passacaille from Visée's second book, go to the MySpace Music URL appearing elsewhere on this page.

At 14:19 on February 5, 2011, Monica Hall said…: Thanks for your message. Glad you find Foscarini useful I'm still working on it and hope to do the whole book eventually. Cheers. Monica

At 13:42 on September 25, 2008, Gabriel Schebor said…: Hi Kevin, thanks for the answer. I thought it was or a Büchemberg or a Graill theorbo. I play theorbo since 1994, and I would never dare to play solo french music in such a huge instrument! I played quite a lot solo recitals with my theorboes, with mostly italian music, but also some De Visée, which I like very much. I've owned a theorbo made in Argentina, based on an original which is kept in a museum in Buenos Aires, and I have a very nice Jacobsen theorbo based on Venere, now. Good luck with your challenge!
Saludos
G

At 4:23 on September 25, 2008, Gabriel Schebor said…: Dear Kevin, the theorbo you are playing in the photo seems to be huge, isn't it? Can you tell me something about it? I love big theorbos!
Cheers
Gabriel

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