Ken Be wrote: > Certainly converting renaissance lutes into baroque > configurations by adding an additional top course (and additional diapason > courses) > seems logical enough, but I'm wondering why keeping the top two courses single > remained a feature on all baroque lutes thereafter.
Maybe the better question is "why not?" It could be that having arrived at a design that worked, there was no need to go to the effort of changing it. If it ain't broke...
