> On Jun 16, 2015, at 11:19 PM, Martyn Hodgson <hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk> > wrote: > > Dear Howard, > > I think you mean unlikely rather than inconceivable.
Of course, you know what I mean better than I do myself, so thanks for clarifying. > 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. I’m interested to know the specific historical evidence making it likely that nobody, among the thousands of lute players between 1500 and 1800, ever used single strings on a lute or archlute. That the instruments were built for double stringing proves nothing, because we know such instruments can be single-strung. That’s how the topic came up. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
