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Originally published in the LSA Quarterly beginning in 2009, Andrew Hartig‘s The Wire Connection series explores the connections between the lute and its metal-strung counterparts.
The Wire Connection: Some Myths and Misconceptions about Historical Wire-Strung Instruments
The Wire Connection: Creating Duets for Renaissance Guitar and Diatonic Cittern
The Wire Connection: Who’s Afraid of the Diatonic Cittern?
The Wire Connection: Buying a Wire-Strung Instrument
The Wire Connection: Octave Ambiguity and Open String Shifts
The Wire Connection: Hidden Ensembles? Lute and Cittern in the “Willoughby Lute Book”