Interesting point, but I would argue that in addressing citoles and gitterns one is not addressing true charangos, but charango ancestors; e.g., I don't consider citoles and gitterns to be citterns, guitars, mandolins, etc.
Best, Eugene At 09:15 AM 8/11/2004, bill wrote: >al contrario... > >those early music enthusiasts who first introduced the charango prototype >to the new world (most probably a citole: >http://www.crab.rutgers.edu/~pbutler/citole.html) would have been playing >something carved from a single piece of wood. turtles may have been a >source of inspiration for the first really, really...i mean extremely >"early" music enthusiasts in europe but then, i think, we'd be speculating >on iron age ingenuity. > >the charango (imho) is european in origin - call it what you will - and >well suited for early music. what people in peru or elsewhere choose to >play on it, however, is entirely up to them. > >chow... - bill > >On Mercoled�, ago 11, 2004, at 14:18 Europe/Rome, Eugene C. Braig IV wrote: > >>This is, of course, largely a group of earl music enthusiasts. The earlier >>charangos tended to favor a more vertebrate-based bowl construction. I >>have no idea at what temperature armadillo hide begins to break down...I >>don't think I want to find out. >> >>Eeew, >>Eugene
