Does it have anything to do with The Orbo? (cf. Kapsperger)
"Peter Nightingale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
Dear list,
Is there a rationale for Piccinini's suggestion that chords, e.g. like
this
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be played by striking the courses in the order 5/p, 2/i ,1/m, 3/i.
Then there also is the other strange thing in his instructions. I
wonder,
did he loose his ring finger in a duel? After acknowledging in passing
that finger's existence --maybe only in others?-- he seems to completely
ignore it.
No idea about why this is so, but you can find the same with French
baroque lutenists.
--
Mathias
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