Fascinating, as you say, Roman. Does anyone know what these fellows would
have been >playing?
No one knows. The culture was entirely oral until late 1500's.
And the torban players at the head of long lines of horesemen; any
comments?
That is 19th century misrepresentation.
And it looks like a tiorbino to me.
RT
ps
I reorganized the picures, as they strayed out of category, and improved the
navigation between the 5 pages.
http://torban.org/mamai/index.html and the succeeding pages.
RT
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