Dear collective wisdom, in the Saizenay ms. there is is a marking in one theorbo piece that is (probably) borrowed from guitar tabulature signs. In the beginning of the Chaconne, in page 288, there is the chord progression named "pour la Chaconne", where the writer has used eight notes after the chords. The notes are pointing upwards - I mean the flag is up. I suppose that means that you have to stroke the chord with one finger. But what about the direction? How is in (French) mixed guitar alfabeto? Note pointing up - a stroke from bass to discant or the opposite? Or perhaps that marking in theorbo tabulature means something else?
All the best, Arto PS BTW, at the the of the Chaconne the final variation has interesting division of quarter notes to 5! To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
