A horrible example of almost indistinguishable "c"s and "e"s is Mertel - and Rude.
There is a different "solution" for this problem: an "e" that looks like an epsilon. Rainer Am 04.08.2020 um 08:34 schrieb Martin Shepherd:
The "r" is in most English lute MSS and in all the lute song prints as well. In fact it's not an "r" at all, just another way of writing "c". My biggest readability complaint is writing the letters on the lines rather than between them - a habit which seems to have become quite common with some modern editors of lute music. And just to open up a few more worms, I find French tablature very convenient because (although I read all kinds of tab fluently) I can write in fingerings, which can get very confusing in Italian tab. M
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