On Nov 14, 2006, at 12:22 PM, Are Vidar Boye Hansen wrote: > I know the fingerboards of my renaissance lute in G, baroque lute in > d-minor, archlute in G and fender stratocaster in E. I honestly don't > understand why many lutensits find this so difficult.
Not to mention acoustic folk guitars in open D, drop-D, slack-key, DADGAD, you name it. I tried slide guitar once: those thing use many different tunings. Having said that, though, I still prefer to play in the tunings I'm most familiar with. It took me quite a while to find my way around Baroque lute tuning, and I'm currently striving, not without some difficulty, to become conversant with re-entrant tuning on the theorbo. David R [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rastallmusic.com -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html