> > Pesori - he has probably copied Foscarini in Galeria musicale. > > The tuning check is not the same. The fact that tuning charts are all > similar doesn't say they are copied.
Still don't clearly mention octave stringing. > I took it from 'Recreazioni armoniche' Now I see that it is probably from > c.1675. The tuning chart is interesting because after the usual 5-5-4-5 > there is a comparison of 0 on the 5th course to 7 on the 4th c. (a tot a) > and 3 on the 5th c. to 1 on the 2nd (c' to c') It seems to me that it could equally refer to a re-entrant tuning. But I haven't seen them and I am always reluctant to comment on things I have not seen personally. That could be an indication > for high octaves next to the bourdons. Then he continues with the usual > tuning check (I suppose all in octaves), saying 'quando haverete accordato > come sopra VS provera come segue'. I'll leave you to suppose whatever you wish. > > Corbetta, Granata, Bottazzari > > > > The purpose of their tuning checks is to indicate the new interval > > arrangement between the courses, not how the instrument is strung. How > else > > do you think they could have done this? > > Like Visee in 1682. Also with a guitar in re-entrant tuning I don't see the > use of having an octave between the 4th and the 3rd course, that will be > there in all those occasions. Especially in a confusing situation with 'new > tunings' Visee's method is very helpful for re-entrant tuning. I can see no reason why Corbetta etc. should have used a different method from the one familiar to Italians - lutenists as well as guitarists, and theorists such as Scipione Cerretto if I remember correctly. Presumably then you think that all of Campions music which uses the same tablature check for the scordatura pieces as De Visee is all for the "French" tuning? Or the re-entrant tuning? This method is actually Spanish. Used by Santa Cruz for his scordatura pieces. Doubt whether he was a re-entrant tuner. Tablature tuning checks indicate the intervals between the strings not how they are strung. That's my last word on the subject. Monica To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
