----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger E. Blumberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "lute list" <[email protected]>; "bill kilpatrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 2:54 PM Subject: Re: odd fret pattern
> > ----- 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 > here's a page on saz. Notice these all have "butt-ports" complete with rosette -- like those 9th century Carolingian Psalter cytharas seem to have (rear ports, trumpeted or not). http://www.rainbowcrystal.com/music/music7.html To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
