Today's snippet of totally useless information: thread count for a tenth
century silk-strung 4-course ud, tuned in fourths:
bamm 64
mathlath 48
mathna 36
zir 27
(if you had a fifth course it was above zir).
I'd have expected it to go up in a sequence of squares, which this isn't
quite.
This is sandwiched in my notebook between a table of the Nether Lorn
canntaireachd and a reference to the Edinburgh Evening Courant saying
that Teviot Brig was tendered for in 1765 (which gives you some idea
of the date for the tune).
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