On Feb 19, 2009, at 9:39 AM, Roland Hayes wrote: > So much for no double reentrant tuning on small theorbos. R. > >> On Feb 19, 2009, at 6:12 AM, Roland Hayes wrote: >> >>> What about the Castaldi duets? What tuning for the smaller >>> instrument? >> >>> R >> >> Just like the big one, an octave higher
Well, if someone wanted to be obtuse about it (not that anyone around here would be obtuse) he could argue that the tiorbino, like the theorbo, was strung in double re-entrant tuning because the instrument was built to such a size that it was impossible to tune it as an octave lute in A. There are such large holes in that argument that we're be none the worse for skipping it. You're right in that the tiorbino shows that someone liked double re- entrant tuning for musical reasons, not because of necessity or practicality. On the other hand, there's not much evidence that Europe was overrun by tiorbinos. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
