Haven't you read my citation from Virdung? By the way, the lute on the title page of Besard's Isagoge has a double first course.
On the other hand Attaignant says (Tres brève ...): Le lutz a XI cordes ordonnez par six ordres... and Enguilbert de Marnef (1556): .. a cause que l'on met deux cordes pour une par tout, fors au son le plus haut, ... Like Virdung, he mentions lutes with 7 courses. Rainer adS Arne Keller wrote: > > Again: > > > Double 1st course is English usage/invention, only later spread to > continent. > > Right? > > > Arne. > > > > > > >
