In a message dated 5/27/2005 7:10:12 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know whether any 16th century lute music involves tuning the 6th course down a tone. Perhaps someone on the list can tell us.
Plenty of examples, the earliest being several piece in the Capirola lute book. Kenneth Be -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html