On Wed, 26 Feb 2014 14:14:47 -0500, Bruno Fournier wrote > 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 > ?
Well, if by 'tiorbino' you refer to the instrument needed for Castaldi's duos then it needs to be strung an octave higher than a double-reentrant theorbo, so you need the first _two_ strings like an renaissance lute in an, and then everything up an octave. This only works with very short lutes, the third string at high b natural is almost as high as a renaissance treble lutes top. > 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. That would create a triple reentrant instrument. Nice idea, but it won't work for Castaldi. Cheers, Ralf Mattes To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
