> On Dec 27, 2015, at 4:45 PM, Ed Durbrow <edurb...@sea.plala.or.jp> wrote: > > Also, I recall someone from one country being quite surprised how much louder > the lutes (or theorbos?) were in another country.
Italian archlutes were as loud as French theorbos, according to Mersenne? or some other French person? This doesn’t shed a lot of light on Lauffensteiner. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
