On Feb 17, 2009, at 3:19 PM, Mark Wheeler wrote: > To be fair to Martyn, he is merely using one of the fundamentals of > historical lute stringing, the highest string is tuned to the > highest pitch > that is possible with the thinnest useable string.
Fair enough. When they started making the big theorbos, reentrant tuning became necessary. No problem so far. > So if you have one of those small theorboes then tune the highest > string > (the 3rd course) to e, the first to d. You mean I should simulate on my small theorbo the conditions imposed upon the stringing by the big ones? I'm not so sure about that one... > Or as Martyn says tune only the first > course down an octave for the first course at a. And to be fair to Martyn, that would work perfectly well for bc. But how about the French solo repertoire, which is written for a smaller instrument yet calls for double reentrant? If I have a larger string that I can use for a second course an octave lower on my "toy" theorbo, is that daft or practical? I think it's practical. Davidr [email protected] -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
