Rob MacKillop wrote: > Just to check...we all agree, do we not, that 17th century means 1600-1699? > Not sure if your paragraph below, Frank, is saying something different.
Yes, sorry about that. Instead of "1700" read "1600" ;-) > I was referring to diatonic citterns, not to citterns in general. I've had > the impression diatonic fretting was gradually replaced by chromatic towards > the end of the 16th century and all but gone around 1600. Then again, even > if my assumption is correct, I suppose there were plenty of old diatonic > ones still in use well into the 1600s. Frank To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
