Nigel
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Just out of interest, what size chitaronne do you think Piccinini was
playing when he wrote his pieces? I used to have a 92cm chitaronne and I
can tell you not many of those pieces are playable on a monster like
that. The theorbo I have now measures 85 cm and even then a lot of the
pieces are only just playable, particularly the slurred passages and
leaps from one end of the fingerboard to another. May be the Italians,
like the French, had two basic sizes of chitaronne: one for solo pieces
and one for accompanying. I don't know, I'm just wondering...
