I'm also a historical performance and Baroque nut. I was fortunate enough to play lute, archlute, Baroque guitar and bass viola da gamba at my college, and I plan to keep playing the viol.

That being said, have some Bob Barto:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=barto+weiss&search_type=&aq=f

>10 Modern instruments were altered from their older forms in a nineteenth-century craze for volume. Add volume, and you have to give up tone (example: metal violin strings are louder than traditional gut, but they sound like shit). Baroque instruments blend together more effectively, and, paired with Baroque performance techniques, like using vibrato as an ornament instead of as the norm, adds to the effect.