Dear all, Am I right to assume that Bach's music is the only music to require that low Gg - fourteeth course? The ambiguity and terminology of description for this lute has always been a bit of problem for me. When asked what instrument I play and Courses versus `number of strings', it becomes a mouthful. I am asked: `What instrument do you play?' I play a 14 course German theorbo, is usually my reply. But then explaining that each course has two `doubled-up' strings but the first two are single, making a sum total of twenty-six NOT twenty-eight strings... Then there is `fourteen course??!' - I thought the Baroque lute has thirteen courses? My response is: `Yes, a Gg tp play Bach's BWV 995, 1997, & 1000' Almost finally, but is it really a theorbo or a Baroque lute? `Yes it is a theorbo because it has the extra bass pegbox'. Why the German bit? `It is based on a lute constructed by JCHoffmann who was German...'. End of breath...
I bet a guitarist does not get this, six strings will do! hehe. Regards, Michael Stitt --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now --
