> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 11:55:12 EST > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected] > Subject: [CITTERN] Re: arch-citterns [was: 12-c Saxon cittern] > > In einer eMail vom 05.12.2006 17:51:38 Westeurop=E4ische Normalzeit schreibt > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >> Lute tuning on 6-courses wire-strung certainly has history. >> I'll let others comment on the other tuning -- even though he needn't be >> bound by any common stock tunings.
> Yes, it is called an orpharion not a ceterone. > He can do exactly what he pleases and I do certainly not see anything bad > about folk instruments. > > The question was, was it a ceterone, the answer remains, no it is not. Your "question" has mainly been about whether or not there is any historical authenticity or precedence for _anything_ Luca does. I think it's pretty clear that he (Luca) did not pen the English CD text and it's exact choice of terminology. In his 2002 email; Luca calls his instrument a _cetra_. "My cetra was build in Corsica by Hugo Casalonga". Roger To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
