Hi all, I wrote: > This could be a good idea to me: I have now my smaller theorbo (Barber's > French theorbo, 76cm:8x1/140cm:6x1) stringed and tuned to high > d-theorbo, but that instrument could be easily set also to d-minor > tuning. But what would our collective "hip police" say about playing > Gaultier, Weiss, Falkenhagen, Losy, etc. by a single strung > instrument... ;-)) When I came home, took my smaller theorbo and tuned it, it was so wonderful in the high d theorbo re-entrant tuning, that I had to keep the instrument like that! :-) (BTW I even happen to have 3 of the 6 basses made of gut! ;) Instead I tuned my (in this moment single course (shudder! ;-)) archlute to a "c-minor" baroque lute - very easy: just had to retune strings 4, 3, 2 and 1. Those higher strings became a little "relaxed" (upwards): G-c-eb-g-c'-eb'. Perhaps a little "Satohish" - quite small tension on the fingerboard. ;) But as could also be expected, the long basses dominate perhaps too much, are too loud compared to the fingerboard strings. But after a while, after playing some "d-minor" stuff in my "c-minor" instrument, I found out again, that I anyhow seem to belong to the "in 4th's" gang and perhaps not so much in the "in the 3rd's" gang... ;-)) All the best, Arto
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