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From: Stuart Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 23:00:37 +0200
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected]
Subject: [CITTERN] Re: An eighteenth century cittern in Prague
(Polishguitars?)
>It looks like an eighteenth century cittern (zister) to me. It's
>different from the later 1750s 4x2+2, English guitar-type instruments
>and it's different from earlier ones -
>it's chunkier, a rather different body outline, a deeper body.
The more instruments I've seen travelling around the more I see just how
varied instruments were in terms of size, shape, number of strings,
tunings, and quality of construction. For years I've been advocating a
chronological and zig-zag history for the cittern, similar to that of the
guitar. I think the separation between early citterns and the so-called
English guittar was perpetrated in great part by the Grove dictionary. The
writers there consistently insist that the English guittar is not a
cittern; I've never found their argument convincing (in part because thy
don't really say why).
I'll stop before I start ranting...
Doc Rossi
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