Doc & Frank: I agree pretty much with both of you an this issue. I rather like the name "baroque cittern". I don't understand, Frank, why you say it isn't actually a baroque instrument, though. Can you please elucidate? I think that it's a better term than "classical" and it's a fairly useful umbrella term for all the regional variants that existed at the time. There is a rather nice one in the Royal Ontario Museum's collection that has friction pegs and some single bass string like the "English" guittar, but a smaller body more like a Renaissance cittern. I don't know if pics are available online from them or not. I have seen it and have some lovely calendars that the ROM produced of their musical instrument collection around 1990-93 or something. Brad
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --
