On Friday, Oct 13, 2006, at 07:52 America/Los_Angeles, Martyn Hodgson wrote:
> Setting the top one or two courses of the theorbo an octave down has > nothing whatsoever to do with the diameter of the string Nothing whatsoever? > Thus for two strings of the same material and length, the pitch at > which they will break is identical. But the pitch at which they will break the instrument is not. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
