I don't play anything of the transitional tuning period, but my experience with retuning between D or C on my eighth course makes me wonder about the need to change strings for retuning. (I came up [aided by Dan Larsen] with a gimped gut that's not too flabby on the C, not too bright on the D.) Perhaps it's easier to accommodate variable tuning with higher pitches? Are different materials more amenable to this? Do you need several lutes, or simply a program arranged from a single tuning scheme?
Thanksjust curious, Leonard Williams To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
