The mandolin might be an even better example than the guitar. The instrument Bill Monroe plays is about as different from the one Vivaldi wrote his mandolin concerto for as two fretted instruments can be. Different tuning, different playing technique, hardly any similarities in construction and no historical connection to speak of. Yet scholars, musicians and laymen all seem quite happy to regard them both as "mandolins."
Exactly. Aren't we smart?!?!? (sorry - i'm suffering from large-teaching-load syndrome...) -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
