> From: Andrew Hartig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 08:28:56 -0800 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [CITTERN] Re: arch-citterns [was: 12-c Saxon cittern] > > > At 12:38 AM 12/4/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> He plays a "Ceterone" by Ugo Casalonga. I have just had a look at his page >> and there is no mention of him making what we might call a ceterone. From the >> mp3's I could hear on the net, it sounds as through the cittern does >> have more >> than 4 courses, but that it is also tuned to an open chord, which I >> beleive was >> never the case of the cittern, before the English guitar. Luca is probably >> playing some sort of modern folk cittern. > > According to the translation in the article in Galpin Society Journal > by Nigel Fortune ("An Italian Arch-Cittern," Vol. 5, 1952, p.43), > Simone Balsamino's "cetarissima" (cited 1594) that I mentioned before > had a tuning of (low to high) A d g c' e' g' c". This *would* be an > instance of a "chordally tuned" cittern (with additional basses) > before the English Guittar.
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