Don't mention it - I'm all in favour of precision in such exchanges.
Are you aware of any evidence that single strings were employed on the
lute (or indeed the archlute) in the two centuries surrounding Castaldi
(the period to which you originally referred)? If so perhaps you would
kindly share it with us.
MH
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From: howard posner <howardpos...@ca.rr.com>
To: "lute@cs.dartmouth.edu" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, 17 June 2015, 18:04
Subject: [LUTE] Single-strung lutes
> On Jun 16, 2015, at 11:19 PM, Martyn Hodgson
<[1]hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Dear Howard,
>
> I think you mean unlikely rather than inconceivable.
Of course, you know what I mean better than I do myself, so thanks for
clarifying.
> Tho' even this is questionable: from the historical evidence it seems
quite likely that 'NO historical players ever used single-strung
archlutes''. Much in the same way that players at the time would not
have employed a single strung lute.
I'm interested to know the specific historical evidence making it
likely that nobody, among the thousands of lute players between 1500
and 1800, ever used single strings on a lute or archlute. That the
instruments were built for double stringing proves nothing, because we
know such instruments can be single-strung. That's how the topic came
up.
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