Dear Howard, I think you mean unlikely rather than inconceivable. Tho' even this is questionable: from the historical evidence it seems quite likely that 'NO historical players ever used single-strung archlutes''. Much in the same way that players at the time would not have employed a single strung lute. regards, Martyn From: howard posner <howardpos...@ca.rr.com> To: "lute@cs.dartmouth.edu" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Tuesday, 16 June 2015, 22:12 Subject: [LUTE] Re: Tiorba > On Jun 16, 2015, at 1:54 PM, Roland Hayes <[1]rha...@legalaidbuffalo.org> wrote: > > ..and Castaldi's illustration is phoney? The illustration you're thinking of is almost certainly a tiorbino. That said, it's inconceivable that in nearly two centuries nobody NO historical players ever used single-strung archlutes. It was as easy for them to do it as for us. To get on or off this list see list information at [2]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
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