On Friday, Oct 6, 2006, at 05:27 America/Los_Angeles, Rob Dorsey wrote: > Actually there is apparently, reading Narvey, considerable evidence > that > English theorbists adopted the Dm tuning despite it being a French > initiative. Go figger' huh?
Mace, writing in 1676, said the theorbo was tuned like the "old English lute" (i.e. in renaissance tuning rather than the new tuning) but with the top course down an octave. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
