----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Thames <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, May 23, 2005 0:20 am
Subject: Re: Stradivari lute?
 
>      That's news to me, that there are 2 surviving guitars by 
> Stradivari. I
> know of the well known one with the longer than usual string length.


Clocking a whopping 74 cm scale, that one is the "Hill" guitar in the 
Ashmolean, England.  The other is the "Rawlins" guitar of a more manageable ca. 
64 cm scale, again in the National Music Museum, SD.
<http://www.usd.edu/smm/rawlins5.html>

Best,
Eugene



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