Oh dear! - I took it as read that the reference to local pitch and national preferences did not require the pedantic adjective 'historic' as in "historic local pitch.........".
MH --- On Sat, 14/2/09, Sean Smith <[email protected]> wrote: From: Sean Smith <[email protected]> Subject: [LUTE] Re: Transposed Dowland songs - ruminations on lute sizes around 1600 To: "Lute Net" <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, 14 February, 2009, 10:33 AM > > > Clearly all this is subject to considerations of local pitch standards > and national preferences....................... > There you go. Proclaim A to be 392 (or 377) for the south eastern seaboard of the US and treat yourself to the nice new larger lute you so royally deserve. The Pavins sound lovely down a bit. Alternately you can put a few thicker strings on your current ax and get a new sound out of it. Sean To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html --
