John: I didn't say mandola. I said mandora. The tuning I use is GCGCG or ADADA, which is essentially the type of tuningused on Renaissance mandoras. Is a bouzouki with a guitar body then a guitar or a bouzouki? Most people that have them refer to them as bouzoukis. It seems that people will refer to hybrid instruments with wooden tops as what they are tuned AS (I didn't imply anything, it's just how I speak/write, etc) but skin topped instruments by their construction. Brad
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 --------------------------------- All-new Yahoo! Mail - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster. --
