Colliginous Trenchancy, I am (an an advanced age) finally working my way to an engineering degree, and have been accepted at our state's premier technical university. They just happen to have a Collegium Musicum (which I've played with in the past). It just happens to have a theorbo, although currently it is classed as "in need of repair". It is my intention to get it repaired and use it to play continuo (which I am learning now).
The only reentrant tuning I've dealt with before was a Ukelelei. (Can you mention one of them here without starting a riot?) I figured I could at least get a start by changing out the top two strings of my classical guitar for an A and D string, and tuning them to B and E, an octave lower than 'usual'. This works pretty well, and I was able to make sense of Kapsberger's toccata arpeggiata with a fair minimum of twisting my brain around Italian tab. Up to now, I've been french/english tab exclusively. I seek advice and help: On a student's budget, is there a source for scale and chord studies, the basics that would make the relations of the strings make more sense to someone who has been linear-all-his-life? Any advice for learning Italian tab for someone used to french tab? I've found that the physical relation between the strings (high pitched string towards gravity) and Italian tab (high string notated 'down') does me no good. Ray -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
