Andre wrote an very intersting article about possible tunings of the baroque lute for Bach's works years ago. I think I still have my copy of the magazine where it was published (Gitarre & Laute) somewhere - also, Peter Paeffgen should be now on the list and maybe want to (re-) publish it on the site of his newspaper Gitarre und Laute. It's too long and detailed to translate and summarize.
Best wishes Thomas Am Mit, 2003-11-05 um 17.54 schrieb Roman Turovsky: > What the site doesn't mention is Bourgete own tuning for baroque type. He > retains the tuning of the first 5 courses > FDAFD > but begins diatonic descent right thereafter > CBAGFEDC, if one wants to try this on a 13 course lute. > With a 16 string liuto forte one would get further > BAG (sufficient for Bach lute music as written, without transpositions). > RT > > That's a newly developed instrument. Would be very interesting if there > > would be a higher interest in new music. For early musicians it should > > be avoided like the devil IMHO. > > It's single strung, formed similar to a lute, has machine heads instead > > of pegs and developed to produce rather "Grundtöne" (basic tones?) than > > "Obertöne" (resonances?) and esp. to be louder than a lute or guitar. > > > > see http://www.liutoforte.com/ > > > > The instruemnts are very well build and sound quite good but not like a > > lute - maybe it can be described it would sound like a better guitar - > > closer to a parlour guitar than to a modern classical guitar. > > > > Best wishes > > Thomas > -- Thomas Schall Niederhofheimer Weg 3 D-65843 Sulzbach 06196/74519 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.lautenist.de / www.tslaute.de/weiss --
