--- Lex Eisenhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why is this important? Mudarra's remark would be by > far the earliest > reference to a guitar in re-entrant tuning. Bermudo > discusses the high > strings that accompany the usual (?) low ones. > Mudarra would be the first to > do the opposite.
placing its intended meaning aside for the moment, what's the earliest documented use of the word "bordon?" where did it come from - which language? not speaking spanish, i have to ask if "cuerda con octava" or something similar - like "strings that accompany the usual (?) low ones" quoted above - was ever mentioned prior to the use of the word "bordon?" couldn't find anything in my latin dictionary to link it to border in the sense of limit but if "border" is implied i imagine it means adjacent or adjoin. - bill "and thus i made...a small vihuela from the shell of a creepy crawly..." - Don Gonzalo de Guerrero (1512), "Historias de la Conquista del Mayab" by Fra Joseph of San Buenaventura. go to: http://www.charango.cl/paginas/quieninvento.htm ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - want a free and easy way to contact your friends online? http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
