Pedro Silva wrote: > Stuart Walsh wrote: > >> Do I detect some impish humour here? >> >> > I don't think you do. What leads you to such conclusion? > > > Well, the surviving repertoire of music for the lute - almost three centuries from Dalza to Hagen (Straube, even): Da Milano, Dowland, Gaultier,Weiss etc etc etc
And the English guitar? Straube even - and a few more too. (And a good player need to learn the A tuning and revive Marella.) I like the English guitar, and one of these days I'm going to put up little website on it. But I wouldn't compare it in any way to the lute. You say: " its a wonderful and unique instrument that never quite reached > what it could and unfortunately died before its time." Maybe it did reach what it could - in the amazing repertoire of the seven-string Russian guitar. That is, if the Russian guitar did evolve from English guitar-type instruments. I have a little discussion of this issue here: http://www.tuningsinthirds.com/Zacher/ Stuart To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
