What about the Castaldi duets? What tuning for the smaller instrument? R
-----Original Message----- From: Martyn Hodgson [mailto:hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 2:58 AM To: lutelist Net; howard posner Subject: [LUTE] Re: Theorbo Nicki don't lose that number Praetorius, Mace to name but two............. --- On Wed, 18/2/09, howard posner <howardpos...@ca.rr.com> wrote: From: howard posner <howardpos...@ca.rr.com> Subject: [LUTE] Re: Theorbo Nicki don't lose that number To: "lutelist Net" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Date: Wednesday, 18 February, 2009, 2:25 PM On Feb 18, 2009, at 3:26 AM, Martyn Hodgson wrote: > However without troubling yourself to trawl these, you will also see > from my recent postings that there's absolutely nothing 'wrong' > with > small theorboes but just that the use of large theorbo tuning (ie > double reentrant in A or G) on the smaller instruments does not > tally > with the historical record (see archives). So Martyn keeps saying. But if you were to trouble to trawl through the archives that he always refers to generally but never specifically, you'll see one post after another in which Martyn resolutely refused to admit what everyone knows: that there is no evidence tying any specific historical instrument of any specific size to any specific tuning or stringing. Mostly he did this by referring to the archives generally but never specifically. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html --
