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>From Tony Bingham. A strange image indeed. Leaving aside, if we can, the >minstrel angle (!) I wonder why Bingham is so specific about the instrument? >The 'wings' on the body do look like Irish 'guittars' - but Irish >guittars/18th C citterns are not all made by Gibson. A long time ago I looked around the National Museum of Ireland's instrument collection of instruments. It's moved somewhere else now, I think. The instruments even then were not on public display but I'd written in advance and was allowed to look at the instruments. There were lots of guittars - usually bigger than 'normal' guittars and with wings on the body and with ivory fingerboards. I often wondered whether Marella's music was for an 'Irish' guittar in A, with a longer string length. ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
