> Certainly a lute player might have come up with a scordatura that would > be quite fabulous,
A quite fabulous scordatura has come to my attention in the English Lute Society's March magazine. Melbourne MS LHD 243 is for 11 course Baroque lute in D major tuning. So I cranked my 1st & 4th courses up to f# and had a whack at the E major violin partita transposed down a tone to D major. Sounds fantastic; better to my ears at least than F major, the more usual key for this partita on lute. And it almost fingers itself, at least as far as I went with it. > And while I think it is more likely, even very likely, that these > pieces are for lautenwerk, it is quite possible that someone someday > will play them on some kind of lute perfectly. Without 2000 edits :) > Add virtuoso, rinse, take the repeats. I can put in 2000 mistakes today with no edits. Subtract virtuoso, and once is already one time too many. I'm going back to Weiss after lunch. Dan To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
