Russo said before his show that he was not nervous, just concerned that his voice, that not-so-tender instrument of laryngeal chaos, could tolerate life as a solo tool.
For now though, let's stay in that scorching Tuscan summer 500 years ago, a 44-year old man, his arms and shoulders still tender from the strappado (an instrument of torture designed to agonisingly dislocate your arms) sat down to write what he hoped would be his calling card to get himself another job.
Over the past 15 years Australia has been trialling conservation tenders and other market based instrument approaches to generate environmental outcomes, particularly on private lands.
Although these indices are not validated for use with a 32-JC, this exploratory comparison allowed assessment of the impact of the potentially higher number of swollen and tender joints on these common instruments of overall disease activity.
TP, tender point, LTPAI, Leisure Time Physical Activity Instrument, BMI, body mass index, HAD-A, Hospital Anxiety and Depression - Anxiety, HAD-D, Hospital Anxiety and Depression - Depression, SD, standard deviation.
But he deplored the lack of tender physical consideration some of them showed the instrument.
He's known for earnest songs about cultural pride, but his tender voice works just as well as an instrument of seduction.
Virtually all musicians have a similar story surrounding their first high-quality instrument, and for many guitarists, that tender memory revolves around the Stratocaster.
The instrument, called "Natural Values Trading", specified that the tenders should be invited and compared on an annual basis but the competitive procedure was not operationalized.
It is an instrument of rare and offbeat beauty, achingly tender and oddly broken, exotic and yet emphatically, endearingly English.
