Catgut Strings: Perspectives on quality and performance
In the Elizabethan times, New Years Gifts formed an important ritual for courtiers seeking favour with their queen. Amongst musicians and instrument makers, the Bassanos gave the Queen a Venice Lute. Mark Anthony Galliardello, the musician gave her ‘a fayre Cytrene with a Stone like an Emeralde in the sounde of the bellye’, and Thomas […]
