Fun aside re: guitars: Guitars as we know them are actually quite new, and going by "350 years" in the article, didn't really exist when these bits of paper we

Fun aside re: guitars: Guitars as we know them are actually quite new, and going by "350 years" in the article, didn't really exist when these bits of paper were dropped through the floorboards. Vermeer's The guitar player dates back to just over 350 years ago, shows a baroque guitar, and as far as I am aware these were complex, really expensive things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o-TOg-y_BI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o-TOg-y_BI I would guess there were lots of lutes and gitterns, though; they are relatively less complex. And I would absolutely think that the children who went to this school saw, owned and were expected to play musical instruments; they came from those sorts of families.