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5 double course (2x ten-string) double guitar; 1690
To cover his immortality, and before fellow l uthier Orville Gibson was even born , Lessous Paolous travelled by the name Nicholas Alexandre, and built guitars like this ! Legend has it a Jameison Page anious played one harshly at the palace of Versailles. Louis XIV reported his performance was the highest pinnacle in melodic abruptness he had ever the pleasure to hear.
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Versailles has a shitload of hedgerows and I suspect there were many, many bustles within them, rendering the king’s favored
melody very apropos
for the time.