>>> To me that might seem most likely to indicate an
>> early experiment with 6
>>> courses on a guitar. Would that make more sense
>> historically?
>> Isn't the guitar simply "a vihuela missing 1st and
>> 6th courses" in some
>> vihuelist's words?
>> RT
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>> Roman M. Turovsky
>> http://polyhymnion.org/swv
>>
> No, that is a simplistic and literal interpretation of
> a discussion about tuning and stringing. What Bermudo
> (who was not a vihuelist) meant is that the tuning of
> the guitar has the same intervals as the four inner
> courses of the vihuela.
I am not convinced. It seems to me that chitarra alla spagnola is simply a
vihuela/viola-da-mano simplified for proletarian usage (and chitarra
all'italiana a lute simplified for proletarian usage).
RT
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Roman M. Turovsky
http://polyhymnion.org/swv
