John E. Golden wrote: "Tashi" <michaelthames@starband.net> wrote: Check this out, very beautiful !!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6UKk5shfIA&mode=related&search= MT Very beauteous. Looks like a 664 mm (Long Scale) Theorbo to me. Regards, John E. Golden Well, the last therobo I made, the first 8 strings were 860mm, and the diapasons were 1890mm
Already in 1990 I arranged some pieces by Robert de Visée for archute - easily adoptable for 10 course lute, too - in so called "renaissance tuning", "viel tuning". As models for my transcriptions I used the Saizenay ms. versions for theorbo and d-minor lute, the baroque guitar version, and Visee's own staff notation version. The Lyre Music Publications published some of my de Visée arrangements
On 11 Sep, 23:56, dewachen1...@gmail.com wrote: I don't quite get the difference between this "baroque guitar" compared to an arch lute or a theorbo. Is the difference just in the tuning?- Yes, the tuning is different, but not much. An archlute is tuned to a nominal G on the first string, but that 'G' could be as low as an E, like a classical guitar. So, imagine a lute tuned to E. The
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:45:25 -0700 (PDT), luteplayer1 <luteplayer1@googlemail.com> wrote: True, although I'm currently looking at scores by Granata and Gallot which use ten courses, five in baroque guitar tuning, and five free- floating basses - a theorboed-baroque guitar. Can you provide a citation/location/publication where these scores can be found? I have an idea that these may be
