Ben And His Theorbo

[@kanayamasound]

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.

[@Ranchorita]

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.

[@flochartingham2333]

Thank you to Benjamin Stein for making the world a better place and contributing something beautiful for us all to enjoy.

[@cippigna]

Thanks for sharing with me the video, it's very nice!

[@candacemagner2544]

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?!!"

[@goodun6081]

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!

[@DJFcam]

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.

[@andreasbyczkowski3435]

Well said!!! Maybe the theorbo’s beauty can also (momentarily)make you forget time and it’s worries?

[@kennewicksheri]

Just heard of this instrument today ... Amazing.. thank you for teaching me today

[@Jherekwhippet13]

Love the sound of the Theorbo. Sounds black and turquoise.

[@davidhillewig]

Wish there were more people like you :-) Greetings from a fellow musician, belgium

[@StephenS-2024]

A fantastic choice for any crisis. Seriously, thanks Ben. I needed to hear that at the end.

[@Susana066]

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.

[@SonjaBeets]

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....

[@DuoContinuo]

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.

[@Unidente02]

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.

[@euledj79]

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?

[@benjaminsteinmusic6606]

Thanks for the kind comments, folks! Next video - how to take a theorbo on a streetcar in Toronto during rush hour.

[@BillPolhemus]

I'd love to build one. Do you have any recommendations as to a source for plans?

[@boblob2003]

@@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.

[@zzyyj2]

I like this video very much! Fantastic!

[@fnersch3367]

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.

[@craigsibley8964]

I tried to contact your website, but it appears to be down. Would love to chat sometime! A fellow artist/musician named Craig!

[@ccooper8785]

Damn !!! Never thought of that. For sale 1 sports car, 1 midlife-crisis owner.....

[@davidbenefiel9289]

How about more videos?

[@fiedelmina]

I'm in love. Oh dang, he wears a marriage ring ;-)

[@prepecenihleb1679]

Video games totally are a viable career choice also the theorbo is probably the objectively best instrument ever followed closely by the hurdy gurdy

[@boboala1]

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?

[@noseonscent1935]

Fantastic

[@soulflyer]

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.

[@frederickjohnson2116]

Where could you purchase such an instrument?

[@lucijajurjane8576]

Could you tell me please who is the author of music in beggining and how it is called?

[@benjaminstein3222]

+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

[@lucijajurjane8576]

+Benjamin Stein ah...that's clear now :) beautiful!

[@vaclavhanusekv1717]

What is the name of that ´´music, music...´´ peace?

[@vahagnvardanyan5392]

Henry Purcell - "music for a while"

[@WangBatTumenjargal]

too bad it's not a course string like the lute