Dear David, You wrote " 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..."
In regards to conditions between "big" and "small" theorbos, I don't see any difference, if the diapasons are also "small" or better said short. If you are using gut then to get the same amount of power that you have on a "big" theorbo, you will need to have the basses tuned higher. Or use octaves on the basses. This is the reason that small archlutes, swan neck baroque lutes and "English Theorbos" had octave strings. But I would not worry, if you have a look at the concert halls around the world today you will find enough toy theorbos and single strung archlutes in action, make sure to sit up front and get your own mike if you are recording....... the main thing is that that peg box extension is visible.. All the best Mark -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: howard posner [mailto:[email protected]] Gesendet: Dienstag, 17. Februar 2009 22:54 An: lutelist Net Betreff: [LUTE] Re: Non-Toy Theorbo for sale On Feb 17, 2009, at 12:19 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. > * * * > This is what they did back then, before modern stringing > possibilities. I'm very leery of "they" and "then," seeing as we're talking about thousands of players and instruments over a period of 150 years or so. Does some historical source say both "highest pitch possible" and "thinnest useable string" in discussing theorbos? And if so, is there any reason to believe that every theorbist subscribed to it? -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
