> Just about everyone here other than you would be trying to define the > instrument that was considered an alternative for the lute in Spain and > Italy, for which Milan, Mudarra, Fuenllana and Narvaez wrote books of music; > the instrument pictured on the front of Milan's "El Maestro" (which, I have > to say, does not look as if it formerly housed an armadillo). I have perused the iconography, and I must say that vihuela was shaped like anything from gamba to bell-cittern, save lute and armadillo. RT ______________ Roman M. Turovsky http://polyhymnion.org/swv
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