Dear Miles,
Zamboni wrote for an Archlute which is tuned in the "vielle tone"
("renaissance" tuning) while Michael tunes his instrument in the "new"
(d-minor) tuning.
Archlutes are usually 14-ch., I also know about 15-ch. examples (for
example in Paris - take a look at the website of David van Edwards and
search for liito attiorbato and you'll find fotos of replica).
There are a lot of other differences to the baroque (d-minor) lute
(barring, usual number of ribs etc.) and I think one need to name them
as different instruments.
best wishes
Thomas
Am Mon, 2004-01-05 um 19.45 schrieb Miles Dempster:
> Dear Michael,
>
>
> Zamboni' s sonatas very occasionally use a 14th course.
>
> Regards
>
>
> Miles Dempster
>
>
> On Sunday, January 4, 2004, at 09:29 PM, Michael Stitt wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > Am I right to assume that Bach's music is the only music to require
> > that low Gg - fourteeth course?
> >
> > The ambiguity and terminology of description for this lute has always
> > been a bit of problem for me. When asked what instrument I play and
> > Courses versus `number of strings', it becomes a mouthful. I am
> > asked: `What instrument do you play?' I play a 14 course German
> > theorbo, is usually my reply. But then explaining that each course
> > has two `doubled-up' strings but the first two are single, making a
> > sum total of twenty-six NOT twenty-eight strings... Then there is
> > `fourteen course??!' - I thought the Baroque lute has thirteen
> > courses? My response is: `Yes, a Gg tp play Bach's BWV 995, 1997, &
> > 1000' Almost finally, but is it really a theorbo or a Baroque lute?
> > `Yes it is a theorbo because it has the extra bass pegbox'. Why the
> > German bit? `It is based on a lute constructed by JCHoffmann who was
> > German...'. End of breath...
> >
> >
> > I bet a guitarist does not get this, six strings will do! hehe.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Michael Stitt
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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