Thank you for your doubt, Monica. I'm looking at the second Conte Clare in
Morlaye's second book and the frequent use of the
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a
a
a
chord as the tonic. It keeps suggesting to my ear that to put the lowest
sounding note on the 3rd course and to use the 4th octave as the 5th in its
more prope
I'm sorry if I was unclear.
What I'm saying is that in both pictures the 4th course is wider for
both the right and left hands which does not support Michael's ideas.
If you're going to split the course, then only for the right hand.
The Cantu picture looks to me like a 5 course with single 4th
I'm very open to Michael's ideas, but am really not sure about a few
things. Could we collectively look at Carlo Cantu playing the guitar
(easy to google) and decide whether he is playing a 4 or 5 course
guitar? There sure is plenty of space for 10 pegs.
If he really split his 4th co
