[CITTERN] Citole

[Peter Forrester]

Replying to Damien's enquiry about citole tuning's, I suspect that the 
current answer is that we don't know, and that it probably varied 
between musicians.

Christopher Page suggests that d, a, d', g' ("Voices and Instruments of 
the Middle Ages", 1987) is likely for the citole and other contemporary 
instruments.

Most recent work on the citole has been done by Kate 
Buehler-McWilliams; her web-site is at   www.trombamarina.com

Other material is at   http://crab.rutgers.edu/-pbutler/citole.html

You may not yet know that the only remaining citole, formerly known as 
the Warwick castle gittern, has now been restored by Chris Egerton and 
is back on display at the British Museum, renamed as the Warwick Castle 
Citole.  Chris gave a talk about its restoration to the Lute Society in 
April and took a party to see and discuss it.

Peter



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