Re: [Fwd: Re: waldzither]

[James A Stimson]

Dear Doc:
 And now you raise another question: Why did the cittern change from an
instrument with a very shallow body, tapering to the tailpiece, to a much
deeper body of uniform depth. How did that change affect the quality of
sound and its projection? What was the musical purpose behind that change?
Cheers,
Jim



                                                                                
                                              
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> Also, is there any connection between the Waldzither and the "bell
> citterns" of a slightly earlier era?
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This is a great question, James, and one that I think always brings out
a tendency to compartmentalize. The way I see it, the cittern went
through a lot of shapes and sizes, and tunings, one of them being a
bell shape. It also got deeper over the years, and the string length
changed along with tuning schemes. I see the history or, shall we say
"development", of the instrument as part of a continuum, but a zig-zag
continuum rather than a linear one.

Doc



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