Here is a shot at a fairly simple setting of a vocal number from the
comic opera, Isabelle et Gertrude (1765) but published in a Recueil for
cistre in the 1770s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K8LFVFI4iM
C.F.A Pollet was the most prolific publisher of pieces and arrangements
for the cistre (cythre) but he was not the most sophisticated. My cistre
is a home-made thing but lute-maker Art Robb helped me finally get it
in a playable condition. Cistres are tuned E-A-D-E-A-C#-E and often have
extra basses. It's a wire-strung instrument with doubles on the top four
courses and singles on the lower courses (like the English guitar).
Stuart
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