the sound archive at the british museum has some early recordings of middle eastern instruments, played with a risha one presumes, but no kobsa.
there must be many early recordings of the bowl-backed, guitar/lute that was popular in germany at the beginning of last cent.. the technique for playing that shouldn't differ wildly from of a lute, no? - bill ===== "and thus i made...a small vihuela from the shell of a creepy crawly..." - Don Gonzalo de Guerrero (1512), "Historias de la Conquista del Mayab" by Fra Joseph of San Buenaventura. go to: http://www.charango.cl/paginas/quieninvento.htm ___________________________________________________________ Win a castle for NYE with your mates and Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
