[LUTE] Pitch names

2012-02-05 Thread David Smith
Hi, This question may have an obvious answer but what the heck. The highest string on my renaissance lute is a g. In terms oh Helmhotz notation it is g' and In scientific it is G4. When I go to different string makers sights I see this sometimes noted as g and other times as g'. At least I thi

[LUTE] Pitch names and lute tunings.

2012-04-14 Thread William Samson
Dear Collective Wisdom, I was wondering when pitch names began to be associated with the strings on a lute. Nowadays the 'standard' renaissance lute is considered to be in G tuning, with the top string at g. Published books of lute songs seem, by and large to agree with this, w