Howard,
This is fair assumption to make, but I don't think a man who devoted a greater part of
his life to music, a meticulous thinker, friends of at least two lutenists, and one
frequented by one of the greatest of them all (Weiss), without mistaking the lowest
bass string on the lute. It
Dear Michael all,
I think it is wrong to assume that because BWV 995 calls for a low G, JSB
must have had a 14 course lute in mind.
I do not think it was a matter of practicality for JSB. He wrote pieces
for other instruments as well that called for notes out of the
tessitura. I think he
