Is anyone making instruments for Fouchetti or Denis-period instruments, with a gut first first string, harpsichord wire for the rest, with the 4th course in octaves, overall shape as outlined in drawings in Denis' methods? I'm assuming such stringing would not work so well on 19th- to 21st-century high-tension mandolins.
And has any performer recorded with such an instrument?
I'm also tempted by the Bortolazzi 4-single-gut-string Cremonese/Brescian instrument, and have emailed Lorenzo Lippi. Does anyone else make historical copies/interpretations?
Rob
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