Dear Anthony,
There's one tiorbino made by Johannes Hieber and Andreas Pfanzelt in Geneva,
Musée d'art et d'histoire, inv. no. IM 80.
This instrument has a new soundboard with a new bridge, but the pegs give the
following informations:
petit jeu:
11 pegs (suggesting 1x1 + 5x2, 48.4 cm string
Hi Anthony,
The Cleveland "tiorbino" is a puzzle. The current bridge shows 6x2 +
8x1, but there are 14 pegs in the lower pegbox and 8 in the upper. My
best guess is that in its original form it was a 11c liuto attiorbato,
7x2 and 4x2. The string length of around 61cm for the petit jeu
just for your information, I have a Tiorbino made by Colin Everett in
Ottawa.. I tune it at standard Renaissance pitch (like a regular lute)
my 7th through 13th course ( I don,t have 14 courses on this
instrument, although Colin also made 14 courses) are singles and I have
recently
A question about tiobino. The Cleveland Tiorbino on Wayne's site shows
6 +8. The bases are single strung. What is the opinion of this set up?
If the basses are double should they be unison or octaves?
There was a question earlier of the thiness of the 'b' (3rd). If the
tension is
