Paintings & Engravings exist, but the single strung thing is mainly modern guitar practice. There is also a hybrid style used quite a bit nowadays that has guitar style theorbo (heavy single strings, etc) plus semi historical technique. Zero is an awfully big number, but it freezes well. dt
At 01:28 PM 1/21/2008, you wrote: >David: > >Thanks for sharing your abundant practical wisdom - the only thing >you forgot to mention under 'historical' is that there is zero >evidence that single-strung theorbos were ever used anywhere. > >Best, > >Ron Andrico > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html