Dear Jean-Marie,
I don't have a copy of Novus Partus, but is it possible that a G tuning
is merely nominal and that he might have expected the actual pitch of
the instrument to be higher, say with first course at around c or d?
Otherwise, if the instrument was indeed around the size of a general G
lute, the string stress on the first and particularly the second course
would have been very low indeed.
Martyn
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From: Jean-Marie Poirier <jmpoiri...@wanadoo.fr>
To: Thomas Walker <twlute...@hotmail.com>; 'Lute List'
<lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, 21 y of this May 2014, 19:12
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Besard's Novus Partus
Hi Thomas,
Besard's "nova testudo" is a 10 course lute in G with the 2 top
strings down an octave, like a theorbo, only a theorbo woudl rather be
in A and would have more courses (14 most of the time). So, yes it's a
lute, in G, with a re-entrant tuning...
Best,
Jean-Marie
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> Hello all--
> Do any of you have a view(s) on what instrument Besard wanted for
his
> Nova Testudo? The other lutes seem pretty clearly to be 9 or 10
course
> instruments a 4th apart. The top lute, to me, looks like he's
assuming
> reentrant tuning. I'm tempted to think of Castaldi's tiorbino, but
> that seems less likely outside of Italy that early in the 17th c.
> Thoughts?
> Thanks kindly,
> Thomas Walker, Jr.
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