Well, there we go :-) I'd forgotten about the Baron. Thanks, Chris. No need to think of the instrument as an "almost 13c" or "overgrown 11c".
If Baron had one, is it out of the realms of possibility that Weiss had one? The London manuscript (if I remember correctly) has a number of sonatas requiring only 12 courses. Lots of interesting repertoire there. Rob www.robmackillop.net > On 17 May 2014, at 21:56, Christopher Wilke <chriswi...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Rob, > > -------------------------------------------- >> On Sat, 5/17/14, Rob MacKillop <robmackil...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Many German mss (including Weiss) have music which >> uses just twelve courses, enough to make me wonder if there >> was in Germany a 12c instrument in currency. > > Baron is pictured with a 12-course lute and I believe the majority of his > music calls for 12 courses. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
