In einer eMail vom 23.10.2006 14:58:53 Westeurop=E4ische Sommerzeit schreibt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> If a banjo-uke is tuned as a uke, is it then a uke or a banjo? > That's an easy one - it's a banjo-uke. It will never be a ukulele (wrong shape and materials) and it will never be a banjo (too small, too few strings). > If a cittern is tuned as a mandola, what is it? > Just as simple: it's a cittern tuned like a mandola. (in spite of your writing "tuned as" rather than "tuned like". "Tuned as" seems to imply that tuning somehow metamorphoses the instrument. I don't think it does.) Your question prompts me to ask another question: Why tune a cittern like a mandola? Why not just swap the cittern for a mandola, and tune it as such? Cheers, John D. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
