Hey Stuart, I had my 7-course guittar built after reading Bland's book years ago. There is a 7-course Preston in Paris. I use Ritter's tuning for some pieced as well - it does make a few fingerings a little more logical. Don't forget that Oswald suggests tuning in G as well, suggesting that there were larger instruments about. To me, all of these alternatives to the 6-course C-tuned cittern suggest that there was experiment going on and exchange with the continent. Look at Merchi, who sometimes published the same music arranged for baroque guitar and for cittern in Paris and London.
By the way, I've played through all of Marella's cittern music - there are some real gems in both collections in the BL. Doc -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web LIVE – Free email based on Microsoft® Exchange technology - http://link.mail2web.com/LIVE To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
