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 | | Since Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni was one of the patrons of San Marcello, it is not surprising to find Don Gasparo also playing violone with some regularity at Ottoboni's court from 1689 to 1694, again in the company of a contrabasso. |
| | Another example of the lower tuning based on BB-b is given by Pietro Cerone (1613); see Boyden, "Monteverdi," pp. |
| | Sven Hansell, "Orchestral Practice at the Court of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni," Journal of the American Musicological Society, XIX (1966), 399-400. |
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