> I thought the instrument might be what J. Carpentier, writing in the 1770s, > calls a �cythre en luth�. Cythres were normally wire-strung, with the top four > doubled but Carpentier also mentions gut-strung, lute-shaped ones too. These > French instruments were normally tuned in A and so have a longer string length > than typical English guitars Searching Cit� de la Musique site on "luth" would get you dozens of these, and even competent looking late 19th cenury lutes with WMorris-like roses. RT
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