At 09:22 AM 12/4/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I stand corrected, it seems people were experimenting with "open tunings". >But i thought we were talking about theorbo citterns and Balsamino's >doesn't seem to be one. >best wishes >Mark
I suppose Balsamino's would only be considered a "theorbo(ed) cittern" if the bottom 3 bass courses were unstopped and of a longer length. However, his statement that "one can play all seven courses conveniently along the whole of the neck" would rule that out -- unless Nigel Fortune's translation is faulty? I don't have a copy of the original Italian.... -Andrew To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
