> Interesting. Would you be kind enough to cite the iconography. > Thanks, > GB >From long necked pandoura type in 7-8th centuries' Catalan mss, to Zurbaran. see http://polyhymnion.org/torban/torban2.html for the former. BTW Zurbaran shows a lute with inordinately long neck. Should be on Alfonso's page. RT
> >> >>> The vihuela is a guitar-shaped instrument tuned like the renaissance >>> lute. It was played in Spain in the 16th century in preference to >>> the lute (although by no means exclusively so). It has been >>> suggested that the Spanish preferred the vihuela because of the >>> lute's association with the Moors. >> This suggestion can be happily eliminated from future descriptions as > there >> is iconography testifying to the contrary. >> RT >> ______________ >> Roman M. Turovsky >> http://turovsky.org >> http://polyhymnion.org >> >> >> >> >> > > >
