>> i repeat that recordings of the lute/guitar instrument >> popular in germany before the war should be plentiful >> and could prove useful as the playing technique for >> these shouldn't have differed greatly from the lute >> proper. > > If by "lute proper" you mean "the lute as it was built and played from 1500 > to 1800," your assumption is incorrect. The lute-like instruments popular > in Germany early in the century were not built or played like historical > lutes. The people building and playing them did not know a fraction as much > as most of us know about the historical lute, and were not really concerned > with recreating historical lute music. > HP True, notwithstanding a few examples of rather historical lute manufacture in the late 19th, early 20th cent. RT
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