Hi all, I have no clue, why the following part was cut out of my e-mail yesterday. So my last e-mail seems complete rubbish, only quoting Stuart.................. Here is the text I had intended to send: Hi Brad - I don't believe it to be an English Guitar either. The sizes of the instrument fit as well into the way Waldzithern were built. The tuners were available. Boehm used them for his first Waldzithern. The similarity of the body shape excludes a proper differentiation. Portuguese Guitars were built in Markneukirchen from 1900 to 1920 as standard modells. There is a tutor by Wobersin (Germany) wrote short before the First World War. The tuning then was (in doubles) cc ee gg c'c' e'e' g'g', like the English Guittar. After the war the market for Portuguese Guitars in Germany shrank to nil.
It's a pity that the photographs are very poor with no details of the pins or the tuning machine. A proper seller would show better details. cheers Martina -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
