Dear lutenists, this is an interesting discussion! I have been sometimes thinking the opposite in theorbo stringing. The tension that for example A. Lawrence-King uses in his baroque harps seems to be (actually "feels to be", I've tried to pluck his instruments sometimes) quite a lot more than theorbists use to use. And the sound is very nice! So what kind of string tension is normal in baroque harps? Our harpists, please tell us! :-)
I understand that d-minor baroque lutes are very different beasts compared to theorboes... Arto To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
