dear collective wisdom, I am thinking of stringing my Colin Everette small archlute as a tiorbino. As some of you might know, Colin built many renaissance lutes on the tiorbino model, with 13 or 14 courses but was stringing it as regular Renaissance tuning with the diapasons in the same tessitura as the bass strings of a renaissance.,
has there ever been a concensus on how the tiorbino was strung? pitch ? I seem to remember some discussion on this, whereas the first 3 courses where at standard renaissane pitch in A, and starting from 4th course down, the pitch was up an octave. thank you -- Bruno Cognyl-Fournier www.estavel.org To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
