> Dear All: > I agree in general with Doc's comments about "true" citterns. I'd been > using that term, however, to distringuish historical citterns and copies of > them from what modern-day Celtic musicians call a cittern, which is > actually an octave mandolin. > Cheers, > Jim >
I could well have misunderstood what Doc was saying (but I do enjoy a good rant and an opportunity to disagree) but surely, in Doc's terms, the modern cittern is fully a cittern - not a type of mandolin - just as the 18th century cittern is fully a cittern and not a guitar. ----------------------------------------- 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
