fig.26:
Dulcimer of type 0.3, Les
Echecs Amoureux
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32283, Fr.143, fo.66
CHAPTER 3: History to 1800 > Early Renaissance - 15th century
Illustrations - 7 of 15
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fig.26:
Dulcimer of type 0.3, Les
Echecs Amoureux |
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The other 0.3. instrument, illustrating the poem Les Echecs amoureux (fig.26), is also French and played by a lady, although her fingers rather give the impression of having just had a strange pair of dulcimer hammers thrust into them for a 'sitting'.
The stringing is, however, rather more convincing, 12 single courses, although shown with no saddles or other end stops, fastened directly onto the soundboard.
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