Andante by Haydn, played by Taro Takeuchi (Regency lute/ Gut strung cittern)ハイドンのアンダンテ（リージェンシーリュート）

Описание: About Regency lute/ single gut strung English guittar:
(Please refer my paper "Rediscovering the Regency lute" Early Music, OUP,
also the CD "Ledbury lute: Lute music from Regency England",
https://academic.oup.com/em/article-a...
http://tarolute.crane.gr.jp/cdaffect.htm)
The lute was one of the most appreciated instruments during the 16th and 17th centuries, however it had generally gone out of fashion in England by the 1720s. From the 1750s onwards, the wire-strung ‘English guittar’ became extremely popular. A great deal of music, including popular tunes, dances and songs, was published for this instrument. It typically had six courses tuned to a C major chord. Additionally, there are sonatas and suites for the English guittar by notable composers such as Rudolf Straube, Francesco Geminiani and Johann Christian Bach. This instrument began to lose favour at the end of the 18th century, its last tutor was published around 1805.
From the late 1760s there were attempts to string the English guittar with gut, and by the end of the18th century a new instrument called "lute" or " modern lute" became popular. Keeping the shape of the common English guittar, the typical ‘lute’ from the turn of the century has ten single strings, a fixed bridge and an egg-shaped, flat-backed body.
Here I play the modern replica of the single-gut-strung guittar. This Andante was arranged and published for the lute by Felice Chabran in London, c.1805.