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To: "[3]lute-cs.dartmouth.edu" <[4]l...@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2010 7:03 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Caccini's theorbo
I think the original article by Harwood, et al., is a pretty
thorough
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Thankfully we have Renato Meucci to have sorted out the HArwood mess.
RT
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From: "David Tayler"
To: "lute-cs.dartmouth.edu"
Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2010 7:03 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Caccini's theorbo
I think the original article by Har
I think the original article by Harwood, et al., is a pretty thorough
study, it just draws the wrong conclusion from its own research by
conflating theorbo and chitarrone. Conflating the terms is
understandable, because many of the terms were used interchangeably.
The big mistake they made was
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 8:59 PM, David Tayler wrote:
> I have a Caccini instrument which was made for me made for me which
> is exactly as Chris describes, a large bodied bass lute. I opted for
> seven courses, although eight or nine seemed like a good idea.
Same story here. I have a 78cm 10-cours
mere '4') but that lutenists and
> >theorbo players were no more octave-bound in 1600 than they were when
> > Delair authorized playing inconvenient or difficult notes at 16' in
> >1690.
> >
> >> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 08:49:07 -0800
>
gt;> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 08:49:07 -0800
>> To: Lute@cs.dartmouth.edu; davidvanooi...@gmail.com
>> From: chriswi...@yahoo.com
>> Subject: [LUTE] Re: Caccini's theorbo
>>
>> David,
>>
>> My guess is that is not wh
lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On
Behalf Of John Lenti
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 1:26 PM
To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Net
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Caccini's theorbo
Whenever I decide to play Caccini on 7-course lute or on my
(essentially French kind-of) theorbo
at 16' in
1690.
> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 08:49:07 -0800
> To: Lute@cs.dartmouth.edu; davidvanooi...@gmail.com
> From: chriswi...@yahoo.com
> Subject: [LUTE] Re: Caccini's theorbo
>
> David,
>
> My guess is that is not what we would call
David,
My guess is that is not what we would call a theorbo at all, but rather a
bass lute probably tuned theorbo-like. All the strings would therefore be on
one neck and those chromatic basses could be fingered. Whether the tuning was
in A, G or something else and whether one or both of
