Dear Reinier, Strictly speaking the tablature in Francesco's book is Neapolitan, i.e. numbers the right way up, but also with the open strings as number 1. That means all the numbers are one out from what you would normally expect.
Best wishes, Stewart McCoy. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Reinier de Valk Sent: 07 May 2009 18:15 To: howard posner; lutelist Subject: [LUTE] Re: Milan's tablature? Dear Howard, What comes to my mind immediately is Francesco da Milano's Intavolatura de viola o vero lauto, libro secondo -- perhaps that is what you are looking for? Kind regards, Reinier ----- Original Message ----- From: "howard posner" <[email protected]> To: "lutelist" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 6:46 PM Subject: [LUTE] Milan's tablature? > Can anyone think of a source other than Luis Milan in which the tablature > uses numbers with the high string at the top? I'm pretty sure I've seen > it, but can't recall where? > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
