around 1560 a monster keyboard instrument called the arcigravicembalo, with fifty-three different pitches
within the octave, on which he could experiment in search of the miracles of ethos (emotional contagion
and moral influence) that the ancient Greek musicians were reputed to have achieved with their music.
But it came to nothing.
EX. 17-16 Luca Marenzio, Solo e pensoso, mm. 1–24