The point is, it has only five courses on the fingerboard. Playing any kind of lute or theorbo music on it would mean redrilling the bridge to accomodate six, hazardous enough on a 'decent' instrument, but I'm not sure this one will be up to it.
David On 29 August 2011 15:17, Garry Warber <garrywar...@hughes.net> wrote: > Not to be argumentative, but... :-) I spent over 25 years building and > playing classic guitars, and this "theorobed guitar" is a member of the lute > family, beyond doubt... But, call it as you will, and no doubt Stephen and > Sandi are correct looking from their background. This stuff greatly depends > upon which expert is looking at it... :-) > Garry > > -----Original Message----- From: David van Ooijen > Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 5:21 AM > To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu > Subject: [LUTE] Re: long strings? > > Their tiorbino (Theorbo Bass Lute small ...) has (Stephen and Sandi's) > description of the theorbood guitar (Theorbo Bass Lute medium). It > even comes with Fontanelli's music! > > David - enough of this nonsense, back to work > > -- > ******************************* > David van Ooijen > davidvanooi...@gmail.com > www.davidvanooijen.nl > ******************************* > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- ******************************* David van Ooijen davidvanooi...@gmail.com www.davidvanooijen.nl *******************************
