Not related to the lute that's so hard to play and sometimes referred to as "that effing" lute!
It refers to the tuning. Letters are the frets (a=open, b=1, etc as in French tab) from high course to low that you stop to tune adjacent courses. Renaissance lute is ffeff. Guitar is fefff. Lyra-viol needs such a notation system because there are so many different ones (more than 60 known). See: http://www.newtunings.com/kidmid/lyraviol/tabtunings.html > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Ramey > Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 12:26 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Manchester Gamba Book > > OK, I'll bite and display my hopeless ignorance, as well. > What's an ffeff lute??? > Steve > > __________________________________________________________________ > > From: Richard Yates <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Mon, November 16, 2009 3:13:49 PM > Subject: [LUTE] Manchester Gamba Book > I have been burrowing through the Manchester Gamba Book > for a while and > arranged 25 of the pieces for Renaissance Lute. Although they were > composed > for lyra-viol in many different tunings, they work pretty well in > ffeff. > Some of the authors and many of the pieces are unknown > from aside from > this > manuscript. > The link to download the file (250KB) is at the top of this page: > [1]http://www.yatesguitar.com/lute/lute.html > To get on or off this list see list information at > [2]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- > > References > > 1. http://www.yatesguitar.com/lute/lute.html > 2. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html >
