This bass Lute is made of rose wood and lace wood. Its sound board is of spruce wood and its finger board,bridge and tuning pegs are made of rose wood.
String length==484mm (diapasons: 753mm)
Stringing: 1×1, 5×2 / 8×1
Pitch: a’
It includes twelve tablature pieces for la guittare Theorbée which also requires five fingerboard courses and seven diapasons. Two chordal tunings are required for the tablatures: c-e-g-c’-e’ and c-e flat- g-c’-and e’ flat on the fingerboard and diapasons G-F-E-D-C-B-A.Ludovico Fontanelli’s manuscript books Sonate per il Chittarone Francese (1733, in tablature and notation) state the tuning of the Chittarone Francese (sic) to be: e’-b-g-d-A on the fingerboard followed by G-F-E-D-CC as the diapasons; the fourth course (d) is a unison and the 5th course (A) has an octave string, with the first course being single.
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