There have been plans to digitize some wax cylinders from the archives of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences by the facilities of the Library of Congress, and a few have been indeed done, but the venture didn't find financing to do the entire colection. RT ______________ Roman M. Turovsky http://polyhymnion.org/swv
> 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
