Baroque Guitar - Tuning

Tuning

Three different ways of tuning the guitar are well documented in seventeenth century sources as set out in the following table. This includes the names of composers who are associated with each method. Very few sources clearly indicate that one method of stringing rather than another should be used and it may have been up to the player to decide what was appropriate.


Composer Tuning
(Italy, 1646/7)

(Spain, 1674)

(Italy/France/England, 1671)

(France, 1671)

(France, 1682)

(Netherlands, 1690)

(Italy, 1606)

(Italy, 1620)

(Spain, 1694)

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