Herbert, Interesting. In theory, it's an 11-course piece, so you wouldn't have to worry about the 12th and 13th courses. It requires an unusual scordatura: the 5th course is tuned down to B-flat and the 6th course is A-flat. (A tuning chart is shown on the last page of the score you linked. The chart shows that the 9th course is G, but this must be a mistake. It should be E-flat.)
I wonder if the odd tuning came about as a result of someone arranging a 13 course piece for 11 courses. Maybe it would work even better if you substituted all those open 5th and 6th courses with 12th and 13th's. They should be tuned B-flat and A-flat if you decide to try it. Chris [1]Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Thursday, April 21, 2016, 8:55 AM, Herbert Ward <[email protected]> wrote: I am starting a Baroque lute suite by one Johann Christian Jacobi. The title page has "Mi bemol majeur". Does this definitely indicate that I should tune my bass strings to an E-flat major scale: Ab, Bb, C, D, Eb, F, and G? The PDF is at [2]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/60516846/Partitions_pour_luth_ba roque/Musiques/Les_manuscrits/Harrach_Rohrau/V12_Luth_solo/Tablature/H1 2_2_Jacobi_Suite.pdf To get on or off this list see list information at [3]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References Visible links 1. https://yho.com/footer0 2. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/60516846/Partitions_pour_luth_baroque/Musiques/Les_manuscrits/Harrach_Rohrau/V12_Luth_solo/Tablature/H12_2_Jacobi_Suite.pdf 3. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html Hidden links: 5. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/60516846/Partitions_pour_luth_baroque/Musiques/Les_manuscrits/Harrach_Rohrau/V12_Luth_solo/Tablature/H12_2_Jacobi_Suite.pdf 6. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
