I said 'ordinary 5 course' guitar (see below) in affirmation of another
communication from David Van O on the subject of guitar volume
generally.
As far as I'm aware, like you, I believe the theorboed guitar was only
ever plucked and probably mostly used for just exotic solo music. Low
tension plain gut at the higher octave balance very well with
fingerboard plucked strings (more so than heavy thud low octave basses)
and with the general tessitura of the instrument.
As said before, since the evidence is not absolutely clear, nothing is
certain but I do think the greatest danger is assuming the Old Ones
were seeking for a 'complete' instrument - a sort of continuo theorbo-
guitar manque which would give a full range of bass notes to allow BC.
Surely the theorbo proper is better for this with the guitar providing
its own idiomatic (ie mostly strummed) continuo acc.
M.
--- On Mon, 20/7/09, Lex Eisenhardt <eisenha...@planet.nl> wrote:
From: Lex Eisenhardt <eisenha...@planet.nl>
Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Chitarra atiorbata/Guitarre theorbee
To: "Vihuelalist" <vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Date: Monday, 20 July, 2009, 9:37 AM
Are we discussing battuto or pizzicato? The GTh was probably mainly
used for
plucking.
Lex
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>
> I agree that the ordinary 5 course 'baroque' guitar can be loud.
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