Does anybody know when the single second course came into use on baroque lutes? During a relative short period several new, transitional tunings came into use before everybody settled on Dm tuning on 10 course lutes. But did these lutes have a single 2nd course? If a typical baroque technique was already used it's perhaps yes. Ballard is still renaissance tuning with -I assume- a double 2nd string, or do we still play this music on totally wrong instruments and wrong technique? Was change in playing technique the only reason for the change? Are there any historical facts about this in literature, old instruments? Taco - who just turned his 10 course into a french baroque lute.
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