Category:Doisy, Charles/Collections

• Detailed biography: Philip J. Bone: The guitar and mandolin, p.90 ; Article by Daniel Fryklund (transl. Jan Ring Ellis, rev. Kenneth Sparr)

The 5 string (or courses, until the 2nd half of the 18th c.) guitar (same tuning as the modern classical guitar, but string ⑥ = E missing) was in vogue when Doisy was young. Later in his life he also mentioned the 6 string guitar.