StanleyYates wrote: "Surely there is a better solution than simply writing everything as if played on bordons with the disclaimer about where anything below a written G might actually sound..."
I probably don't fully understand the problem, but it seems to me that smaller note symbols to indicate the pitch of the octave strings would do much of what is required. David Cameron To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html