David Van Edwards wrote:
> You *could* play everything on a 10 course lute but it
> would give a rather false idea of the 6 course music. He might
easily
> have had two or three lutes.
Spoken like a true luthier! [And quite right too :) ]
I'll just add that I currentl
Dear Alan,
Therefore he collected music for the whole gamut of renaissance lutes!
the six course lute is rather a different instrument from the 10 course
and different again from the 12 course. See this brief history of the
lute http://www.vanedwards.co.uk/history1.htm for some idea
Dear Alan,
According to Robert Spencer's article in New Grove:
"Sturt's seven extant lute solos were written for a ten-course lute in
aEUR~old' tuning with the lowest course lowered to B a(TM) A for two of
the pieces."
Fret material (and strings for that matter) would have been