On Mar 27, 2010, at 8:04 AM, Monica Hall wrote: > Dowland is probably being a bit pedantic here objecting to the consecutive > octaves. It is not really any different from organ stops which go in > octaves.
It's not consecutive octaves, but the re-entrant effect that's the problem. On an organ, all the keys on a manual are in octaves when the octave stop is pulled; the disposition typically doesn't change halfway up the keyboard. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html