I agree with Doc. I've never considered the guitar to be anything other than a cittern, albeit a strange one!
Rob -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 October 2006 14:19 To: [email protected] Subject: [CITTERN] Re: An eighteenth century cittern in Prague (Polish guitars?) Actually, there is one more thing about that "anglo-centric" view I mentioned and that is the name "English" guitar, which I find rather inappropriate, and which forces us to use other adjectives like Scottish or Polish, etc. I can see that this type of classification might be useful in a certain way, but it is, in my point of view, based on a fallacy or at least an incomplete picture, and it would just be easier and perhaps even more accurate to talk about things in terms of citterns (and their music) of a certain time, place, and maker when known. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
