On Jun 12, 2009, at 10:56 AM, morgan cornwall wrote: > I have a question regarding Howard Posner's comment that a 7 course > lute with the 7th course tuned to D is a different instrument > than the > 7 course lute tuned to F. Is it actually a different > instrument, or > was that a matter of speech and one can use the same instrument by > either restringing or retuning? If it's a case of > restringing/retuning, can you simply retune, or does that depend on > whether it's a gut or synthetic string?
Different stringing rather than different instrument, so you can restring. Strings that will be good for an F should be pretty flabby for a D. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
