On Oct 7, 2010, at 6:55 AM, Martin Shepherd wrote: > 17th C archlutes were indeed about 67cm string length and used gut strings > for which the highest practical pitch was about a'=392 or possibly lower. It > follows that the ensembles in which they played must have used these low > pitches.
This makes assumptions about 17th-century gut strings, and ignores surviving 17th-century archlutes shorter than 67cm. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
