Re: 9 string ID
From Hobgoblin Music FAQ's:
The English guitar and the Scottish guittar are one and the same instrument. The term 'English guitar' was invented in this century to describe it, in the 18th century the spelling 'guittar' would have been always used for this instrument - they didn't call it English, or Scottish, or Irish or anything else, just a 'guittar'. The tuning from Bremner's tutor, the leading tutor book of the era, gives A=440, tune A C# E a c# e.
Open "A" tuning, in other words. The tuning is given for a six-string instrument; if this one has nine strings, it might either have three doubled courses, or might have extended range. Here's a Wikipedia article that says the English guitar has ten strings, two single and four double courses, and says it was tuned to open C.
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