Dear lutenists, some time ago here was the idea of trying the gallichon music by a normal, at least 7 course lute in renaissance tuning - just by forgetting the highest string and reading directly the gallichon tabulature. Just occured in mind: why not do the same to the baroque guitar music: just forget the highest string f the lute and play the 5 course guitar tabulature! Of course it is different, but but anyhow possible. And when I went through some de Visee and Sanz pieces playing my 6 course lute with 3 basses having octave strins, I even could try to imitate also the re-entrant tuning(s) of baroque guitar - and kind of had an octave also in "guitars 3rd course". So why not try? I think some "puntaedo" music could actually work well by lute - at least better than by a modern guitar. And by the way, the lute's high string could help you avoid some high positions of baroque guitar... :-)
All the best, Arto To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
