baroque guitars are not ten string guitars andrew frankly you are mistaken it is incorrect to refer to a baroque guitar as a ten string guitar no one refers to the baroque lute as the string lute but correctly as the course lute this is a well established musicological organological convention string guitar is the only exception to this and that is only because the term has been disseminated by the popular cult ure in the usual brainwashed ignorance of the masses if two strings function as one string they are a course not two separate strings in contrast a ten stringed guitar has ten separate strings each of which can be separately fretted this is not the case on the baroque guitar which effectively only has five courses moreover the term ten string guitar has come to signify a particular instrument which is not a baroque guitar you are evidently not a musicologist organologist semiologist semantician so i don't see what you think you will achieve by being bothersome about this issue which relates to organology and semantics