I applaud you supporting using period instruments.
   I have tried your no. 3 and recommend it over the other options. You
   might already know this, but you will be heard mostly only if you add
   flourishes -- especially single notes placed carefully to cut through
   the other sonorities.   The chords and doubling will enhance the
   texture, and be visually pleasing, but ornamental runs, especially at
   cadences and to fill in upbeats, will be heard and appreciated.
   Another approach is to play a short solo or two in between some of the
   excerpts.
   Good luck.
   Dr. Susan Sandman, prof. Emerita, Wells College
   ELizabethanConversation.com

   On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 8:48 PM Gary Boye <[1]boy...@appstate.edu>
   wrote:

        Lute List members, Help!
        I've been asked to play on some Lully excerpts from Le Bourgeois
        Gentilhomme in early October. I have a theorbo, lute, Baroque
     guitar .
        . . no problem. But the conductor wants to do it A440. All of my
        instruments are strung for A430 (and one A415).
        My initial response is to say no, but I want to encourage some
     early
        music performance here, so my only options would appear to be:
        1) Re-string an instrument for A440 ($$$!)
        2) Try some type of capo (OK for guitar, less so on theorbo)
        3) Try to finger it at F#m or Fm and stay tuned low
        4) Tune high and risk it (!)
        5) Try to convince them to play at A430 (seems doubtful)
        It's frustrating, but again, I'd like the experience of doing
     something
        to encourage some early music performance here . . . Any thoughts
        appreciated.
        Gary
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        Appalachian State University
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