The use of simple geometry and the local unit of measurement in the design of Italian stringed keyboard instruments:
an aid to attribution and to organological analysis
Grant O'Brien
Equivalent Measurements
In many of the regions of Italy, the units of measurement used in minor towns or centres were, for obvious reasons, equivalent to those of the particular region where they were located or to those of the nearby major centre. The reader should note that the towns given below used measurements which were the same as those of the region in which they were located or under whose domination they found themselves:
Ferrara Argenta, Cento, Comacchio, Codigoro and
Pieve di Cento.
Florence Arezzo, Empoli , Livorno, Montepulciano,
Pisa, Pistoia, Porto Ferraio, Prato and Sienna.
Genoa Chiavari, La Spezia, Novi Ligure,
Oneglia, Porto Plata, Savona and San Remo.
Milan Lodi, Monza, Pallanza and Treviglio.
Naples Acconza, Aci Reale, Aquila, Avellino,
Bari, Barletta, Benevento, Brindisi, Caggiano, Cagniolo, Calabria, Campobasso,
Caserta, Catanzaro, Cava, Cava, Chieti, Cosenza, Eboli, Fiano, Foggia,
Gallipoli, Ischia, Isani, Lecce, Lucera, Mazzarà, Nocera, Nota, Potenza,
Puglia, Reggio di Calabria, Rocca, Salerno, Taranto and Teramo.
Palermo Caltanissetta, Campobasso, Catania,
Catanzarro, Girgenti, Lipari, Marsala, Messina, Ragusa, Siracus aand Trapani.
Perugia Foligno, Gubbio, Narni, Spoleto and
Terni.
Piacenza Bardi, Bobbio, Carpaneto, Fiorenzuola and
Pellegrino.
Reggio Coreggio, Gualtieri, Luzzara, Reggio nell’Emilia,
Reggiolo and Scandiano.
Rome Civitavecchia, Frosinone, Orvieto,
Rieti and Viterbo.
Trento Riva di Garda and Tiarno.
Turin Alba, Asti, Biella, Cuneo, Ivrea,
Mondovì, Pinarolo, Saluzzo, Susa and Vercelli.
Venice Asolo, Bassano, Belluno, Ceneda, Chioggia,
Chions, Conegliano, Cristoglia, Gaiarine, Istria, Lugo, Mestre, Muggia,
Portobuffolè, Portole, Prata, Ravenna, Rovigo, San Leonardo, Treviso, Trieste
and Vicenza.
Verona San Giorgio di Levenza and Portoguarro.
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