The verdict aroused quite an uproar in the music industry. In the 2015 trial court proceedings, the jury rendered a verdict finding Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke liable for copyright infringement, based on the “substantial similarity” of their song “Blurred Lines” to the 1977 Marvin Gaye hit “Got To Give It Up.” The jury ordered Williams and Thicke to pay nearly 7.4 million dollars to Gaye’s heirs. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard oral arguments in the appeal of the controversial “Blurred Lines” case. ( The exact date is contested, but he would've been 336 years old in late March, 2021.) Bach's music played on the lautenwerk is a gift - anytime you have a chance to hear it.Recording of Oral Arguments, Williams v. Playing the lautenwerck, he says, is a path towards peace in trying times, made extra meaningful around Johann Sebastian Bach's birthday. "And we sometimes forget there are other things in life too." "We love living life in excitement," he said.
Shin is an early music maven, but he's also a fan of superhero movies, cartoon violence, Star Trek and Star Wars. "They're all different shapes and sizes." "None of them really work the same way," Shin said. Unlike a Steinway piano, there's no standardization to contemporary lautenwercks. The small handful of artisans currently making lautenwerks are basically forensic musicologists, reconstructing instruments based on research and what they think lautenwercks probably sounded like.
The lautenwerck can pull certain heartstrings," Shin said, with the authority of one who knows firsthand.
(My editor, Steve Smith, was reminded of a quote from the late conductor Sir Thomas Beecham comparing the sound of harpsichords to "two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm.") Their strings are made of guts, originally from sheep (like lutes), which gives lautenwercks a warm, intimate tone distinct from brassy, metal-strung harpsichords.
Picture extremely delicate harpsichords - in fact, lautenwercks are alternately called lute-harpsichords. No lautenwerks survived the 19th century.
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