> From: Frank Nordberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 20:13:26 +0200 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [CITTERN] Re: Andrade Portuguese guitarra > > Roger E. Blumberg wrote: > > (About Streichzithern) >> one of them has a chin-rest (now at least) > > You're right, I didn't notice that. Then again it's not that hard to > imagine somebody taking a Streichzither and use it as a regular violin. > There were genuine fretted violins around btw but the ones I've seen at > least had a standard violin shape.
interestingly; say's here they were tuned in fourths http://www.studia-instrumentorum.de/MUSEUM/zith_streichzith.htm there's a nice graphic of three body-styles lower on the page Roger To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
