To my knowledge, The Dartmouth list does not support attachments... The Ning site is a good place for them, and I am always willing and happy to post them via my cittern site if needed.
-A: > > > Hi Damien, > > I hope this works. I attach a photo of a postcard sent me some ten > years ago from Crete by Patrick Delaval. It seems to be evidence that > citterns were at least still a folk-memory, even if not still in use. > > Best wishes, > > Peter > On 28 Nov 2008, at 20:13, Damien Delgrossi wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> Two weeks ago I spent some good times with a Cretan group who was on >> tour in Corsica. They played many Cretan and Greek flutes, Laouto >> (Cretan wire-strung lute similar to italian mandoloncello), Bulgari >> (built by ning member Dimitris Rapakousios), Lavta (Constantinople >> Lute, more or less fretted arabic oud to explain it simply) etc etc... >> >> The plucked instruments player from Crete, Vangelis Tsagarakis, told >> me a very interesting thing : A long, long time ago Crete also had the >> "cetra". He told me that because I had my cetera with me and he said >> that they used to have exactly the same instrument on the island of >> Crete. I was wondering if they used to have the same 8 course cittern >> or the renaissance 4 or 6 course cittern, popular in Italy and Europe >> during the Renaissance and after. He told me that the cetra in Crete >> probably had 4 courses. >> >> So I have my own idea about this without any information nor sources >> except this oral one. >> Candia (the old name for Crete) was administrated, colonised and >> directed by the Venitian Republic after the taking of Constantinople >> by the crusaders from 1204 to 1669. The Venitian Republic held Crete >> for about 4 and a half centuries. >> I think that the cittern was in Crete because of this strong Italian >> influence. >> >> Does anybody have any information, sources or anything to say about >> this? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Damien >> >> >> >> >> >> >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >> > > -- >
