Dear Michael,
Zamboni' s sonatas very occasionally use a 14th course. Regards Miles Dempster On Sunday, January 4, 2004, at 09:29 PM, Michael Stitt wrote: > 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 > -- >
