Hi Martin and others, Funnily enough, Doc and I both met each other at a symposium/conference in Portugal, where the topics were centred on the Portuguese Guitar, the so-called English Guitar and a few related instruments. It was called: A Guitarra Portuguesa - Simposio Internacional, Universidade de Evora, 7-9 September 2001. One Corsican gave a talk and a recital with a singer on the eight-course Corsican Cetara. Papers from the conference were published in a book called 'A Guitarra Portuguesa' published by ESTAR (email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Looking at it now, I see that the Corsican's paper is only two and a bit pages long and is in French. His name is M.Raffaelli (don't know what the M stands for). Unfortunately, I recall that Jim Tyler, who was also giving a paper, poured scorn on Raffaelli's supposed history of the Corsican cittern...So I don't know if it is worth looking at...
The concert was great - very passionate, with very virtuoso-style playing, and the singing was the usual mixture of sex, death and Catholicism! Rob MacKillop To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
