Thanks for your reply. what about Q? Is it used? If so, 't' would refer to c# assuming g tuning and harmonically the piece wouldn't make sense being in F if I remember well. I was assuming q is not used quite like j in order to avoid confusion with o. But I really do not know. Jurgen
---------------------------------- “There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.” Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rumi ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Thursday, March 28, 2019 10:39 PM, Rainer <rads.bera_g...@t-online.de> wrote: > Yes, it's as simple as that. > > n=12 > o=13, > p=14, > .. > > so j is the only one that is not used. In those days there was no real > difference between "i" and "j". > > Dowland uses p somewhere, Piccinini goes much higher (20th fret) and ages ago > somebody found a piece that went even higher (I think it was 26) in an 18th > century tablature. > > Rainer > > On 28.03.2019 11:11, Jurgen Frenz wrote: > > > Hello there, > > > > my apologies, I forgot that the list bot doesn't handle images so a > > message I sent earlier was unreadable. So here I go again, with the > > relevant image of the tabulature linked to google drive. > > > > I didn't find an answer online or on the British Lute Society's FB page > > as to how positions above the octave are identified on a lute. There is > > this curious section in Mercure d'Orléan's "Auff der Schlacht von > > Padua" in Fuhrmann's Testudio p.188 where he notates notes as "p", "r" > > and "t". As I don't want to trust my assumption that these would > > correspond to finger positions 14,15 and 17 or the notes 'a', 'bb' and > > 'c' assuming a lute in g I am asking here for the facts. And where are > > these finger positions or 'fret names' codified? I attach a screen shot > > of the last two lines of that page. Oh and I don't want to discuss the > > musical quality of that lengthy piece. > > > > [1]https://drive.google.com/open?id=1UFZSHsdgjwXBpMlci5oO-rzriDIpBA9Z > > > > Any advice would be very welcome! > > > > Best wishes Jurgen > > > > ---------------------------------- > > "There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen." > > > > JalÄl ad-DÄ«n Muhammad Rumi > > > > > > References > > > > 1. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1UFZSHsdgjwXBpMlci5oO-rzriDIpBA9Z > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
