Hello John, Technology moves on! Thanks for this clarification. As I do not use capos, I have not followed up Stephen's indications, a pity. It is of course,...
I once posted a thread about a book I just bought with Galalei's music. I believe someone told me the tuning for the Italian Renaissance lute for that music...
Duh, try reading the book, Glen. It's 3=F#. Everything else is the same as the Romantic tuning ... to wit: low to high = A B C D E A D F# B E ... Renaissance...
It may be dated, but I found Frederick Noad to be quite helpful. ... From: 10string@yahoogroups.com [mailto:10string@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of pub15 Sent:...
I now try to summarize some of my concepts: 1) 6 strings are too few for a guitar: I already normally play a 7- string guitar with 7th mostly tuned as b1 2) a...
Brilliantly put and a great solution. I agree with all you've said. I have the problem, maybe one of discipline, that I tend to learn new pieces as written...
Hello Enrico, I think you have a very ingenious approach to the tuning of a 10s, which well suits the kind of repertoire you play. If you have arrangement of a...
Hello Marion, Noting your anecdote regarding any lute with fixed frets, you may find the following "amusing". At my second meeting attendence of the UK LS,...
Hello James, I will post a pdf file of the score of Prelude BWV999, as an example, but I want to stress that it is not really relevant to the approach. If you...
Hello James, I have posted a trascription of mine to d minor of the prelude BWV999. But that is not really relevant to the point. Let me explain. This first...
I have posted 2 e-mail messages that say pretty much the same thing, because I had a doubt that there was a transmission error after sending the first version....
I mentioned before that I bought this great book of Galalei's lute music, written in treble clef notation with 8s under the basses which were an octave lower...
Hello Glen, I take a guess: it may be that the score you have is intended for terz guitar. Terz guitar scores are often written transposed a minor 3rd lower,...
As someone who plays a higher tuning...my ears perk up when someone critiques the concept of higher tunings. I find I partly agree with you,,,and partly...
Raphaella Smits has recently updated her 8-string website: <http://www.rsmits.com/eNEWS.htm> "In 2006 the Italian composer-guitarist Carlo Domeniconi invited...
Hello James, I have been around the block on the peg issue with the lute community. There is a rational side and an irrational side of lute design and other ...
Thanks for the interesting comments you made. Let me just clarify that the stringing solution I have proposed is not intende as THE solution, it is only a...
Hello Marion, I agree with what you say, one hundred percent. Regarding metal tuners, all I would add is that I am quite sure with a suitable bit of research...
Hello Glen, Enrico has answered your query correctly. Music for the guitar family is written as for a standard tenor in E. Thus, when one plays a terz - tuned...
Thanks for your replies and explanations. In the Galilei book, it shows the tuning for his lute as 10-1 = ABDEADF#BE, shown in treble clef standard notation,...
I do not know, but I add the following info: as far as I know, the f# tuning of 3rd string is the makeshift "renaissance" tuning for classical guitar. In...
At this link: http://www.mateus-lutes.com/renaissance.html see 10-course lutes. It says there that this particular lute was a transition before the Baroque...
Marion, let me express the following opinion: it may be fun to speculate about construction problems of a replicated ancient lute, but that may be different...
There is another possibility, that the original has come down only in the form of tabulature, without a precise indication of the required string tuning for...
... The usual 10 course lute had a longer scale length than the stereotypical 7 or 8 course lutes. This was neccessary to get a better sound out of the gut...
Hello John and Enrico! I have a question I need clairifying. Can a commercially availible guitar string for a 65 cm scale,,,which you say can't be tuned to an ...
G4 is really it. It's starts overstretching about half way between g4 and g#4. I've tuned them to g#4 and they break over night just sitting there. The...
Ciao Fernsemer, in addition to agreeing with what John Abrams has already answered, I also want to recall some results on the physics of strings. The same...
Hello Enrico, Thank you very much for posting the Bach example. No need to apologise for the the length of your explanations, I understand your approach, as...
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