In einer eMail vom 29.06.2008 11:32:38 Westeuropaische Normalzeit schreibt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
But yesterday a musician from Puerto Rico wrote on the cittern.ning.com a very interesting page about cittern in Spain etc... I copy it to you : "Hola: If you go by Anthoy Baines instrument dictionary, 1992 its listed: cittern (sp.citara). Citara comes from the french word < citre > (Waldbauer). It chabges to citara in SpainAn aprox. time would be the 16c. There are a number of string instruments with similar names but they are different instruments. <snip> Damien, Very interesting - but what does this tell us? That the idea of a flat-backed, fretted instrument with double wire courses is a very old one, and is very widespread. And that the few basic instrument names are used pretty arbitrarily in their various national-language forms. And that the tunings vary (probably with the style of music) from time to time and from place to place. Didn't we already know this? ;-) Cheers, John -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
