Dear Arne, >>Anyway, the first (tortoise) lute was stringed with the totoise's >>intestines :) >> >>Best wishes >>Bernd > > Dear Bernd, > > do you know the source of this entertaining legend?
I now see that my remark was wrong. The inventor was Hermes /Mercurius and he made the strings from ox' sinews, the cattle he had (of course) stolen from Apollo. You'll find the story in any collection of greek mythology, I think. One source could be Lukian. best wishes BH To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
