Hi Richard, List > The issue of the re-entrant tuning on a guitar is a very different subject. > First it has noting to do with string length, and second it has nothing to do > with bass lines...as has been pointed out it has all to do with campanella > passages.
The initial question (as I understood it) was: why was it developed ? I doubt if the origin of the re-entrant tuning of the 4-course or 5-course (??) guitar in the 16th century had anything to do with campanela playing. There is no music left to show us. I hold to my speculations about the open air and the ukelele (with due respect). > But what constitutes "re-entrant" on a guitar? only the 5th course up? the > 5th & the 4th up? octaves only on the 4th? octaves on 4 & 5? (which Sanz > states is the norm in Spain.....is the only tuning ever designated in Spanish > sources....and is called for in many Italian sources with campanella > passages.....?) > > Ahhh more food for thought.... Indeed. Who's hungry enough to give it a bite? Lex To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
