Andrew Rutherford wrote:
> The tuning is GCEGBE. Is that right for that time?
It's not *exactly* that tuning but a late 18th C. Norwegian cittern
manuscript, known as the Edvard Storm Ms., gives a tuning with the same
intervals, only one step lower:
f bb d' f' a' d''
Although Storm was Norwegian, he lived in Copenhagen at the time he
wrote the manuscript and it seems to have been more influenced by Danish
and/or German traditions than Norwegian ones so he was proably using
some continental tuning. However, no other reference to anything similar
has been discovered until now.
Frank Nordberg
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