----- Original Message ----- From: "bill kilpatrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "lute list" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 1:11 PM Subject: odd fret pattern
> there's an old instrument - bulgarian perhaps - up for > auction on german ebay with an unusual fret > arrangement. anyone have any knowledge of this? > > > http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=7799&item=3771339890&r d=1 > > just curious - bill I think it's called a "tamburitza", tambur, or tambura (not the Indian one but probably a descendant of it) -- Bulgarian, Slavic, Serbian, Bulkan, Croatian, Bosnian, Anatolian, or something. There are probably other names to. There are similar Afghan instruments (tambur, Dhamboura, dutar, Shashtar), and Turkish saz etc. The upper fretting on the one at ebay must be diatonic or "other-scalar" of some kind. Roger > > ===== > "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 > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! 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
