Dear Monica;
In a recent exhange I pointed out that aside from the octaves on the 4th and 5th courses on a baroque guitar tuned to play Francisco Guerau's music the tuning was identical to the first five strings on a modern guitar and hardly reentrant. I'm sorry, I do not remember your exact words, but I believe the gist was that without the octaves on the 4th and 5th courses Guerau's music would be unplayable or incomprehensible. I finally got around to playing a few passacalles on a modern guitar and found the result to be most pleasant and musically coherent, albeit different than the same pieces played on a baroque guitar. Gary. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
