On 28/10/2011 17:32, Monica Hall wrote:
Very interesting. Am I right in thinking that the instrument has
octave stringing on the 5th and 6th courses - with the bourdon on the
thumb side of a course?
Monica
As far as I know, the only gut-strung plucked instrument with octaves on
the basses arranged so that the thumb hits the high octave first is the
pesky guitar!
Stuart
Really - it is not pesky at all - just a little different. Actually I
vaguely remember reading somewhere that there is evidence that the lute was
sometimes strung back to front...can't rember where.
One reason why I asked is because I was wondering whether the 6-course
lute was ever strung with octaves on the 5th and 6th courses but not the 4th
at the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th
century. Received wisdom is that the lowest three courses were octave
strung but was that always the case?
Monica
At the bottom this time.....
To get on or off this list see list information at
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
