----- Original Message ----- From: Lex Eisenhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, March 17, 2007 4:41 pm Subject: [LUTE] Re: [Viols] "cello" - Italian
> This is Millioni's way to say that we can play from alfabeto on > the chitarra > Italiana by omitting all that is on the fifth string. So this > instrumentmust have had a guitar tuning, with an interval of a > fourth between the 4th > and 3rd course, unlike the one in 'conserto vago' or other small > lute-shaped > instruments (like in Kircher), that probably had the interval of a > fifth. Don't you mean intervals of a third and fourth respectively? Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
