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Two medieval troubadour melodies on a Guitarra Moresca

'Two C12th trobador melodies Ai, Lemozi' by Bertran de Born 'La dousa votz ai auzida' by Bernart de Ventadorn I tend to use the more accurate old spelling trobador, rather than the modern spelling troubadour. This is a Guitarra Moresca - Moorish Guitar - based on an illustrations in the manuscript of the Cantigas de Santa Maria, a book of praise songs to the Virgin Mary, compiled around 1260 in Spain. I bought the instrument from the musician Martin Best, who had it commissioned in the late 1970s. I first heard Martin play it in 1982 on an album he recorded called 'The Dante Troubadours', a collection of songs written by the trobadors who appear in the writings of Dante. The whole album is available to listen to on Youtube should you wish, it's a lovely album. I fell in love with the sound of this instrument when I heard it, and so now, over 40 years later, I am lucky enough to actually own it. When it came, I had to cut off the old metal strings which were well past their sell-by-date, and then work out what sort of strings would suit it. In the end, I decided to use very thin metal ones, designed for traditional Iranian instruments, simple wire strings which would be more in keeping with medieval wire strings. Modern thinking is that these instruments would have been strung in gut, but there is some evidence for wire strings on some instruments of the time, so it's not impossible that some instruments had wire strings on them; after all, musicians will forever experiment. The very thin nature of the wire and the very low tension of the strings does not cause any danger of the instrument exploding, the tension on a modern guitar, due to the thicker metal strings, is huge, but these strings are much gentler on instruments. The thin strings and very low string tension, give it a delightfully delicate, etherial sound. The study of medieval instruments - and the performance of medieval music - has dramatically advanced in the last half a century, and many of the aspects of this instrument are not really historically accurate at all. But Martin's music - which I greatly value - was, and is a huge inspiration to me, and probably more than any other musician he inspired me to explore medieval music. So I am delighted to have this instrument in my collection, and it will be put to very good use on recordings and noodles without a doubt.