> That would definitely be one solution. Singing to a bass lute is going > to move the range of any song a fourth lower than it would be if the > lute part were played on a lute in G. A difference of a fourth lower > would put most anything into a nice low vocal range.
I'm sure there will be a singer on this list who will correct me, but to me the voice should match the instrument (as the voice is the more versatile - except those if the narrow range that is all I have left). If one is not singing to the concert hall with bel canto then one's range should be easily two octaves with a similar timbre (when young), and can easily be three. Except for the very few with perfect pitch singers work on relative pitch, and have a preferred range that should be reasonably wide (at least a third for a song). It is only in part music where dropping the tenor will take the bass below his range, or vice versa by raising, that there is a problem. Best, Jon
