Can anybody give an explanation why the the top two courses are single on the
baroque lute? Certainly converting renaissance lutes into baroque
configurations by adding an additional top course (and additional diapason courses)
seems logical enough, but I'm wondering why keeping the top two
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From: Martin Shepherd [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 01 May 2004 13:49
Subject: Re: top two courses single on baroque lute
Dear Kenneth,
I can't answer the last part of your question, but just to clarify what you say about
the conversion
Martin wrote:
As to why 13c lutes had single seconds (and whether they always did) I leave
it to others to speculate.
One obvious speculation is that a 13-course bass-rider lute was a modified
11-course. The easiest conversion was to add the bass rider and leave
everything else alone.
HP
Ken Be wrote:
Certainly converting renaissance lutes into baroque
configurations by adding an additional top course (and additional diapason
courses)
seems logical enough, but I'm wondering why keeping the top two courses single
remained a feature on all baroque lutes thereafter.
Maybe the
