Hello there, my apologies, I forgot that the list bot doesn't handle images so a message I sent earlier was unreadable. So here I go again, with the relevant image of the tabulature linked to google drive.
I didn't find an answer online or on the British Lute Society's FB page as to how positions above the octave are identified on a lute. There is this curious section in Mercure d'Orléan's "Auff der Schlacht von Padua" in Fuhrmann's Testudio p.188 where he notates notes as "p", "r" and "t". As I don't want to trust my assumption that these would correspond to finger positions 14,15 and 17 or the notes 'a', 'bb' and 'c' assuming a lute in g I am asking here for the facts. And where are these finger positions or 'fret names' codified? I attach a screen shot of the last two lines of that page. Oh and I don't want to discuss the musical quality of that lengthy piece. [1]https://drive.google.com/open?id=1UFZSHsdgjwXBpMlci5oO-rzriDIpBA9Z Any advice would be very welcome! Best wishes Jurgen ---------------------------------- "There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen." JalÃl ad-Dën Muhammad Rumi References 1. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1UFZSHsdgjwXBpMlci5oO-rzriDIpBA9Z To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
