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Iranian tar.

NO WAR WITH IRAN

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Michel de Bethune (1607 - 16..?) : "Pieces pour theorbes Francaises"

Jose Miguel Moreno, theorbo

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Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) - Sonata for Mandolin and Harpsichord in g-minor, K. 35. Performed by Anna Schivazappa, mandolin, and Fabio Antonio Falcone, harpsichord, on period instruments.

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Rest in Peace, Brian Wilson

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Mrs Moll Davis (1640–c.1721), Actress and Mistress of Charles II Peter Lely (1618–1680) Weston Park

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CONSERT DE DIFFERENTS OYSEAUX. dans Étienne Moulinié Airs avec tablature, II Paris, Pierre Ballard, 1625 partition voix et tablature, f. 16v-17

Compositeur :  MOULINIÉ, Étienne (1599-1676) Poète :  PRIEZAC, Salomon de [attribution possible] Genre :  air de ballet ; air de cour Date de référence :  1624 

Il sort de nos corps emplumés Des voix plus divines qu'humaines, Qui tiennent les soucis charmés, Et font dormir les peines. Nous vous appellons à tesmoins, Que si nos voix font des merveilles, Nos Luths ne penetrent pas moins Les coeurs, que les oreilles. Gardez de vous abuser tous, Ce seroyent choses estranges, Si les Corbeaux, & les Hibous Chantoyent comme des Anges. Nous sommes des Dieux deguisez Qu'en ce lieu ces beautez attirent, Et c'est pour nos coeurs embrasez Que nos bouches soupirent.

«Étienne Moulinié - L'Humaine Comédie» Le Poème Harmonique ; dir. Vincent Dumestre

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Good job, From Software, in making a realistic lyre. Compare it with these reconstructions of lyres exhumed from a tomb in Ur (modern Iraq).

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Bellerofonte Castaldi (1580-1649) - Fantasia detta Pegasea ·

Diego Cantalupi

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Bellerofonte Castaldi (1580-1649) of Modena: Musician, Poet, and Adventurer David Dolata Florida International University

Bellerofonte Castaldi (1580-1649)

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Cittern. With unequal frets!

Allegory of music, 17th century by Antiveduto Grammatica (1571-1626)

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Curious. Most guitars at this time had 10 pegs for a first course that could be strung singly or doubly and second through fifth courses doubly: || || || || | or || || || || ||.

This guitar has 13 or 14 pegs. The strings are clearly arranged in double courses. There do not look to be seven double courses. The neck does not look unusually wide.

With even lovingly detailed instrument iconography, there is always room for error.

Aside from the elongated pegbox and extra pegs, this looks like a normal early 17th century guitar.

Thank you for sharing!

Simon Vouet (1590-1649) "Woman Playing a Guitar" (c. 1618) Oil on canvas Baroque Located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, United States

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These have replaced the lute rosette in our sick age

Sound Holes :: Christian Marclay 2007

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Giovanni Zamboni (ca. 1664-1721) - Lute Sonata in c-minor, Op. 1 No. 9, III. Giga. Performed by Jakob Lindberg, archlute.

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I'm doing my part

A Gathering of Friends (1642) by Eustache Le Sueur

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Lira da braccio, instrument of the Italian humanists

Dosso Dossi

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The only remaining five-string pipa from Tang Dynasty China is kept in a Japanese museum.

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Woman with Guitar (1631) by Gerard van Honthorst