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Originally Posted by Undertoad
Meanwhile, bass content: low E has been the lowest note available to music for roughly 5 centuries.
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Are you kidding? not to be pedantic.. or a smartass... (or a pedantic smartass..) but, though I haven't looked, it's hard to believe any handheld instrument can beat an organ with 16 foot pipes for low notes. (Some organs today have 32 ft. pipes. I'm not sure if those were available in the 1700s, though, but 16 definitely were.)
But seriously.. how low can you tune it without the string getting too loose to be useful?