Indeed. It's only unfortunate in trying to define relationships between chimeras long after the original inspiration is forgotten.
At 11:23 AM 9/22/2004, Roman Turovsky wrote: >I personally don't see this as unfortunate. All the lutenistic chimeras make >our life diverse and interesting. >RT > > >> Unfortunately, no luthier is confined to the rules of heredity and > >> can generate chimeras at whim. Luthiers are free to draw > >> inspiration from anywhere. There often are no direct relationships > >> evident between intermediary steps, and if you try to concoct a > >> cladogram of necked chordophones, you'll end up with crossing > >> and undefinable or isolated branches. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
