I think it was last year at the seminar in Cleveland that Andy Rutherford had what he called his 'Mace' lute. It was a very charming 12 course lute based on what Mace describes and also on half of the dyophone(sp?) lute shown in Mace's book.
--Sterling ----- Original Message ---- From: "mathias.roe...@t-online.de" <mathias.roe...@t-online.de> To: "lute@cs.dartmouth.edu" <Lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Tue, July 19, 2011 3:13:35 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Mace May I say that I've learned a lot from Thomas Mace's book as regards French and English music of nthe 1620ies through 1670ies. And I particularly enjoyed his music which I perceived as a blend of French texture and English folk tunes. His tuning allows you to play all of that sophisticated music with so many accidentaly (at least in the CNRS editions) in simple keys with no or not more than one accidentals. Even partbooks with Mace's tuning have survived in the Bodleian iibrary. Nice consort music, or so I've read in an article by Rob MacKillop. Mathias (from Tunisia) To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
