> More singing like meaning > less chopped up with the 8ve jumps.
No unwanted 8ve jumps, if you know the tuning. Actually less, because the fingerboard strings (5 of them) are in the _same_ octave! Theorbo is not a renaissance lute, teorbo is not a guitar! You should become familiar with the "3rd string is the highest" -principle! Too often you hear even professional(?) players playing theorbo as if it was a ren.lute/guitar - making their arpeggios practically always aiming to the 1st string instead of the 3rd. Sounds actually quite horrible... You know what I mean... > He is the one who strung his theorbo in A, the English way so to speak, > with only one re-entrant string...he probably never even touched the > first string. Poor old Campion! He should have had an archlute... ;-) Arto To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
