this "is or isn't vihuela" question appears to be the
thread that wouldn't die. ask about fluted ribs and
up it comes ...
just to let you know ... from now on, at every given
opportunity, in all manner of documentation that's
available to me, i'm going to refer to my charango as
a vihuela; same for the canary island timple i'm
hoping to get and the - who knows how many - ukuleles
i'll probably buy before i die.
from here on in, they're all vihuelas.
my hope is that some bright spark in the future will
find this "documentation" - or better yet, a fragment
of this documentation - and set about perpetuating
this ... (let me look this up to be absolutely sure)
.. polemic ... forever.
for all i know, informed discussion of this type
occurs all the time in any discipline. but (roll over
e.b. white) i honestly don't see how anyone - "expert"
or otherwise - can exclude the possibility, the
probability even, that at one time in history many
different instruments carried the same name. simply
as a historical construct (applied to countless
numbers of luthiers in the past, both artiginale and
professional) i can't see how anyone can definitively
catagorize the vihuela based on one or two or three,
lone examples.
extremely intelligent, terribly esoteric, but what is
"it" - precisely - that are you trying to define?
vexatious litigant (not) - bill
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