BAROQUECELLO

2 common tuning systems existed at the same time. Monteverdi probably wrote for an instrument having the range of C-G-d-a, where as composers such as Giovanni Valentini (1619) required in their music notes down to the B', resulting in the tuning B'-F-c-g... baroque cellist Nils Wieboldt, his activities, and information about gut strings and baroque cello in general. early music links