I re-read this quote (Big D/Besard):
"Secondly, set on your Bases, in that place which you call the sixt
string, or
vi; these Bases must be of one bignes, yet it hath beene a generall
custome
(although not so much used any where as here in England) to set a
small and a
great string together, but amongst learned Musitions that custome is
left, as
irregular to the rules of Musicke."
Does this mean that octaved courses went of out fashion, or that they
were only in fashion in England for awhile? I would think that after
stressing in the earlier part of the post that the highest string was
the loudest, perhaps this was a way of making the lower courses sound
louder?
What say ye?
Lynda
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