I seem to recall that chitarone / theorbo did at first not refer to the
extended neck but to the reentrant high tuning which was at first used
on bass lutes (then still without bass extension). Chitarone being the
big version of the chitara francese, a type of _lute_ played in Italy.
Only later,
Piccinini certainly reports this
MH
--- On Tue, 3/6/08, Mathias Rösel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Mathias Rösel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [LUTE] Re: theorbo sizes; theorbo definitions
To: David Tayler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: lute-cs.dartmouth.edu lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Date: Tuesday, 3
Exactly--
the distinction is a modern one, the historical one
semi-interchangeable based on time region.
The only way to define an archlute as distinct from a theorbo is to
ignore the myriad historical examples where the terms are used interchangeably.
This distinction is similar to calling
