"but why not with English citterns upon an English cittern revival...next year?.."

why? I've yet to see an answer to the "cittern problem" If it's simply because it's English and evidence of that is highly questionable, simply because from the 16th until the 18th century the cittern was a common English barber shop instrument, doesn't mean it's origins are English.
It seems to me that the term cittern is a generic one and has ben applied to the bouzouki, the octave mandola, the tenor mandola and the mandocello, to name just a few instruments

so, WAV, mandocellos at dawn on Wimbledon Common is it? *LOL*

Olivia Beak (Ms)
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