Now in Collins Barracks - if my memory serves me correctly, there are 14 guittars. I have a list of their names/makers somewhere...
Oswald wrote for two pitches of instrument, one in C and one in G. I always thought these larger guittars were for G. But who knows for sure... Rob -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 March 2005 22:57 To: [email protected] Subject: curious pic of 18thC cittern http://www.oldmusicalinstruments.co.uk/iconography/icon_detail.php?id=14&cat =PS >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
