They began not all together, but the one tarried for to enter with the other, making many divisions in the process of the music, some staying, other playing; and the most times the played all together in four parts. The parts were two small bandoraes for tenor [given as violas in the original Portuguese text], a great one for counter-tenor, a harpsichord that followed the rest [elsewhere da Crux mentions ‘a certain manner of harpsichord that hath many wire strings, upon which they play with their finger-nails for which purpose they let them grow long’] and sometimes a rebec [rabecas] and sometimes a dulcimer [doçianas] for treble...they used a good policy in not playing more than two strains, so that we might remain desirous for more. << less