Do not not forget the enormous proliferation in the 18th centyry of ARCHCITTERNS as well, and some of them were called archlutes. RT ______________ Roman M. Turovsky http://polyhymnion.org/swv
>> UMI Research Press Ann Arbor Michigan by Tharald Borgir, it is stated >> that the archlute increased in popularity after about 1680 because of >> the introduction of wound strings which it louder and, as it was >> more agile than the theorbo, more practical for continuo. >> >> cheers, > Interesting information. Does he give any evidence for this opinion? To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html