A microphone system for a Theorbo? Ischell...

An instrument you don't see every day, the theorbo or teorbo, is a plucked string instrument — a kind of large lute — created in Italy at the end of the XNUMXth century. In the XNUMXth century, the evolution of the theorbo followed two paths: the Roman theorbo, also called chitarrone, and the theorbo of Padua. Theorbo was used to...

Ischell and world music: the Bolon

The Bolon, is a traditional Mandingo instrument found in Mali or Guinea, tuned an octave lower than the N'goni, it is made of two assembled gourds covered with a skin and a round handle. The strings are twisted skin and pass through the center of the bridge and the neck. The contact microphone Ischell is placed in the center...