Joseph Mayes wrote: > I found out why it seems unbelievable - it's not true. It seems that the > lute's repertoire, renaissance and baroque, is about half of the guitars > only from the 19th C.
Assuming, of course, that both the estimates of lute pieces and the hand-me-down numbers you cited for guitar pieces are essentially correct (or even meaningful) which is a pair of big assumptions. You may be comparing two numbers pulled out of a hat. I would not be so quick to consider the matter settled. HP To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
