I have a question about the lute (!) that I have never heard a good answer to. Why did each course consist of a pair of strings, rather than a single string? This was the case with other instruments such as guitar, vihuela, mandlin, etc. also from the earliest up until the baroque, so surely there must have been some perceived advantage. I'm afraid I can only see possible disadvantages.
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