J, if you count the pegs on Adamo's Lute, there will be some more than 13 - at least twenty.
The drawer obviously omitted the octaves to simplify his work. Karl ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerzy Zak" <[1][email protected]> To: "lute-cs.dartmouth.edu" <[2][email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 2:01 PM Subject: [english 100%] [LUTE] Re: Erzlaute > On 2009-07-10, at 12:11, David Tayler wrote: > >> The problem here is that single stringing is historical, > .. > > Yeee... > There are men who loves "chaos", they need it to breath, to florish, in > the best possible terms. > Others cannot live without order, alwaye seeking knowledge and > establishing harmony, whatever is the evidence. > Some are doing this and saying the other ;-) > > The past is unpredictable, to say anachronistically, and largely in our > hands. Look at this: > [3]http://tinyurl.com/muyoco > Single strings or double courses? Of course, we know the man, his opus, > obviously a swan neck lute, French tuning, bla bla bla, etc., etc. But > stop automatic thinking, click again. Wishful thinking, a florish of > knowledge or chaos of evidence? Is it a trick or a very simple matter of > fact? > > Single stringing is historical ;-))) > > J -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. mailto:[email protected] 3. http://tinyurl.com/muyoco To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
