Sounds like somebody may be a touch spoiled or impatient here- some of us old timers remember the days when we had to go to public libraries and get our music by HAND COPYING IT on staff pages- 5 line staves to which we hand ruled a 6th line if we didn't want it to be 5 line Attaignant style- from MICROFILM projections. That's how I got my Thomas Robinson, Dowland's LoST, Le Roy's English printing, Barley's book, Maynard's "XII Wonders of the World" and a few other things. I still have one of these books, that I sweated over for weeks- kind of like personal ms tabs from the real old days, before any of us were born.
For other music, I had to learn to read lute music transcribed into double-staff notation for a G tenor lute, not easy for a guitarist used to "E" on a treble staff. (VALUABLE training!) I had to go out and BUY this music as "hard copy" entities from "brick & mortar" music stores- or mail (not "e"mail) order my music. Some of us old farts occasionally still do this, in fact. I got my 7 course stuff right along with the 6, 8, 9, or 10 course music and was perfectly grateful to have it all, and sort it out. Even when my only "lute" was a medium quality nylon string guitar. Omer- I advise a little more patience, initiative; and better manners, please. Dan > > I'm looking in some few books, but thank you for being an a*** > >Omer, it is obvious that english is not your first language. >DR's reply was remarkably polite, if a bit abrupt. > >Your counter was not only downright rude, but also inapropriate. > >To my knowledge three is no index of Lute sources which lists 7c pieces, >much of the material published after 1500 is for either 6 or 7c >instruments. Note that anything for a 6c instrument is playable on a 7c. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
