The title page of Playford's Harmonia Sacra states that the thorough-bass is "for the Theorbo-Lute, Bass-Viol, Harpsichord or Organ".
Is this "theorbo-lute" an instrument such as described in Britannica: "A similar, smaller instrument, the theorbo-lute, or French lute, was a modification of the regular double-strung lute, to which were added one to three off-the-fingerboard courses of bass strings. There were two pegboxes, one angled backward. Smaller and more agile than the theorbo, the theorbo-lute was the favourite of the 17th-century school of French lutenists." Or what we would now call an archlute? Or a theorbo? If this was a French instrument, what was its name in French? Thanks, Dennis To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
