Hello, I have recently converted my 10 course Renaissance lute, into a small 13 course archlute. String length of first 6 couses ( doubled exept for 1st) = 59 cm while the Single basses 7 through 13 are 101 cm. I am looking for suggestions on how I should tune it and string gauges...I plan to use as much gut as possible.
Should I: a) try reentrant tuning in G ( 1st course and/or 2nd course) b) reentrant tuning in A c) or tune like a Tiorbino ( using traditional renaissance tuning with 4th to 13th course tuned an octave up, therefore creating re-entrant tuning but all up one octave...) Any one played in the latter tuning? thx -- Bruno Cognyl-Fournier Luthiste, etc Estavel Ensemble de musique ancienne www.estavel.org To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
