I guess my Corsican is better than I'd thought. I'd bet that a 16- string cittern has 8 courses, which is fairly normal in Corsica.. What's the source? Have you had a look at or have you played through the music? Doc -- Not yet. I have a hamburger cister on (long overdue) order, and would love to try the Corsican material when it finally gets made. Have been a longtime corsophile, since I was 15. RT == http://polyhymnion.org
Feci quod potui. Faciant meliora potentes. > How's your Corsican? > > ".. Veri di 1720/1750. lepica di Stradivarius, è a custruzione di u > viulinu à quattru corde, a più cumpiita. Intavulature à u cunventu di > Marcassu, da Stefanu Allegrini, in 1720, pè una cetara à sedici corde. Hè > u tempu di a musica « cristallina » : « pè fà un bon accordu, ci vole, > cetara, timpanu è viulinu »..." > RT > To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
