> and not opinion, definitive. After 1680 the tuning nuveau in Dm spread > with > the "Enlightenment" movement to include lutes and theorbos played in > northern Europe.
Don't forget the mandora, very nortern Europe, too, that stayed in old tuning. David To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html