Early Music Course in Karjaa (Finland), summer 2003 - mainly only theorbo pictures ;-)

The new instrument came during the course:

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Also Leif Karlson tried the new instrument:

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General interest?:

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Then Leif counted the age of the tree, of which the top is made of (it was something like 150-200 years!):

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Five theorboes in a row (2 by Timo Kontio, 2 by Stephen Barber, 1 by Timo Kontio):

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More details:

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Different playing positions (especially in the middlemost it seems to be swinging ;-) :

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A beautiful - and perhaps even poetic - theorbo player:

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And at the end some (theorboeless ;-) pictures from the course concert (of course there was also a theorbo in the concert, but no one was taking photographs in that moment...;-) :

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Arto Wikla
Updated 6.8.2003
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