At 07:01 PM 11/14/2006, Roman Turovsky wrote: >...and tabulature allows any piece to be played by any lute of any >size within its appropriate time-period, regardless of the key and its >relationship to each partucular instrument's pitch.
..Other than a set relative pitch of intervals between courses (typical renaissance tuning in six courses, e.g., 4th-4th-3rd-4th-4th), of course. Tablature for one set of open-string intervals is worthless to an instrument tuned to different intervals without some real effort at transcription; i.e., you can't readily play renaissance tablatures on d-minor lute, bass colascione, renaissance mandore, baroque-era mandolino, etc. Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
