Dear Alan,
According to Robert Spencer's article in New Grove:
Sturt's seven extant lute solos were written for a ten-course lute in
aEUR~old' tuning with the lowest course lowered to B a(TM) A for two of
the pieces.
Fret material (and strings for that matter) would have been
Dear Alan,
Therefore he collected music for the whole gamut of renaissance lutes!
the six course lute is rather a different instrument from the 10 course
and different again from the 12 course. See this brief history of the
lute http://www.vanedwards.co.uk/history1.htm for some
David Van Edwards wrote:
You *could* play everything on a 10 course lute but it
would give a rather false idea of the 6 course music. He might
easily
have had two or three lutes.
Spoken like a true luthier! [And quite right too :) ]
I'll just add that I currently
