Howdy Folks, I'm on the road at the moment and don't have regular access to the internet so I haven't been able to keep up with the recent threads - I haven't even been able to read everything yet!
Two things I wanted to say: RE Ron's (beautiful) cittern: Has anyone mentioned fake labels? A few years in Evora we saw several "ancient" citterns, many of which were 19th and 20th century fakes, and many of them were similar to the instruments shown in one of the early links supplied in the thread (not very helpful, I know...). I have to agree that the binding on Ron's cittern is rather bright, but I'm not at all sure that that is decisive for dating it. RE Pedro's theory: There is an essay in Portuguese published in 1936 that also claims that the Portuguese guitar is based on the earlier cittern in Portugal. I'm sorry I can't give you the bibliographic details just now - maybe someone else can, or perhaps it's already been mentioned. Doc -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
