Thanks for that, Roman. What Roland says is fair enough, it's just that the tuning I tried to lay out (not done very clearly I'm afraid) is what I saw most players using when I was in Corsica in June, and what they talked about as the traditional or standard tuning. It's also the tuning Michele Raffaele (not spelled correctly I'm sure) uses, and what he says was pretty standard in times past. I can't check any of this info at the moment because everything's in boxes as I get ready to move to France...
There was a guy named Carmine in Corsica using the D D A D G tuning (low to high) that Roland mentions. D A D G (a tuning I use a lot, with a fifth course tuned to D, G or A, depending on the tune I'm playing) is what I use for Irish and medieval music. It's actually similar to tunings used on sitar, sarod and other instruments from the east. It's very good for melody. Doc To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
