Hoping people will forgive me for straying slightly off topic for this list, does anybody here have any idea what on earth this instrument is?: http://www.pictures-clipart-graphics.com/files/na/naylor1896-000g-a11-bg.jpg
The picture is from Naylor's "Shakespeare and Music" (1896), generally a fairly reliable source of information (considering the time i was published) but this instrument doesn't look like any lute or cittern I've ever heard of, it doesn't even look like a functional musical instrument! Naylor's description says: "LUTE. Italian, 1580. Three plain holes in belly, obliquely. Ornamental back. Flat head. Pegs turned with key from behind. 12 strings - viz., 1 single (treble), 4 doubles, 1 single, and 2 singles off the fingerboard (basses). 10 frets." Frank Nordberg http://www.musicaviva.com http://www.tablatvre.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
