Dear Bruno, I have no idea about Lutz Kirchof. But as for Nigel, when he recorded the variety CD, has had an instrument built for the occasion. The book is actually written for a 9 course lute, somewhat of an oddity. In judging from instruments at the time that would have been used, they were all around 68 cm or so, so in a larger, longer instrument, a lower pitch would have been indicated. That is the reason.
ed At 10:18 PM 4/26/2005 -0300, Bruno Correia wrote: >Dear all, > >Recently I have been working on the Huwett fantasia by Robert Dowland's >"A varietie of lute lessons". I'm trying to find recordings of this >piece but unfortunately I just found two, one from Lutz Kirchof and >another by Nigel North. In both recordings the piece is played as if the >lute was tuned in e. Why is that? Why they didn't play it on a lute in >g? Was the piece conceived for such a tuning? > > > > > >-- >No virus found in this outgoing message. >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.10.3 - Release Date: 25/4/2005 > > > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html Edward Martin 2817 East 2nd Street Duluth, Minnesota 55812 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (218) 728-1202
