[LUTE] Re: Baroque lute Tunings

2017-01-05 Thread Rob MacKillop
John, he just means tuning the bass notes, the diapasons, to the key of the piece. So, if a piece is in C major, the bass strings would be ABCDEFG. If the key is F, the bass strings would be ABbCDEFG, because Bb is in the key signature of F Major. Similarly, for G Major, the bass strings would

[LUTE] Re: Baroque lute Tunings

2017-01-05 Thread David van Ooijen
See page 31 David On Thu, 5 Jan 2017 at 14:09, John Yentes <[1]jackyen...@gmail.com> wrote: Hello All, I recently acquired Miguel Yisrael's fantastic Book "method for the Baroque lute" and have found it to be a wealth of information. I am,