A lot of lute music is written for 6c lutes so after tuning down the 3rd guitar string to F# you have the same relative tuning as a 'g' lute albeit lower by a third. There is a very large corpus of 6c lute music. If you want to play later lute music on a 6 stringed instrument there are problems of arrangement and/or transcription that might make playing more difficult on an instrument with fewer strings. Quite often the lower courses on a 10/11 course lute are played 'open' and do not always require fingering. If you re-arrange those bass notes in a higher register your fingers will be very busy. There are many guitarists who have learned to play from tablature by first playing on a re-tuned guitarand if you just want to play occasional renaissance lute music that is a very good way to do it. Be careful! you might get hooked!! best wishes Charles
-----Original Message----- From: Joshua E. Horn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 November 2007 05:38 To: [email protected] Subject: [LUTE] Is it true? Is it true that most lute music can be played on guitar if you retune the g string? -- Joshua E. Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - One of many happy users: http://www.fastmail.fm/docs/quotes.html To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
