At 05:24 AM 6/18/2008, Stewart McCoy wrote: >Your baroque mandolin is presumably tuned in 4ths, with a 3rd between >the 5th and 6th courses. That puts it on a par with the theorbo and >renaissance lute, which also have four 4ths and a major 3rd, where an >approximation to meantone is a workable possibility.
However, I'm not certain there's any evidence or likelihood meantone temperaments were widely used on such things. Of course, there's precious little extant detail of how that era's wee mandolini did anything at all, but the bulk of the repertoire didn't appear until the mid 1700s. Best, Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
