Interestingly Bert one of the vihuela manuals (Venegas de Henestrosa) that I mentioned earlier quoted a similar observation: Venegas adds to a similar description (of tuning - MCP) his observation that some players teach tuning by marking a line across the strings at the nut of a tuned vihuela for students to use as a visual reference point, retuning the strings by aligning the marks with the nut.


Mick