I think Besard explains the Nova Testudo in his preface - can someone
help with the text? As I remember it is top two courses down an octave,
like the theorbo.
M
On 21/05/2014 18:10, Thomas Walker wrote:
Hello all--
Do any of you have a view(s) on what instrument Besard wanted for his
Nova Testudo? The other lutes seem pretty clearly to be 9 or 10 course
instruments a 4th apart. The top lute, to me, looks like he's assuming
reentrant tuning. I'm tempted to think of Castaldi's tiorbino, but
that seems less likely outside of Italy that early in the 17th c.
Thoughts?
Thanks kindly,
Thomas Walker, Jr.
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