"Joachim Lüdtke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Within the field of instruments in question I tend to think of instruments > with a lute-back as lutes and of instruments with a back made of sides > (unsure about the terminology, in German they are called "Zargen") and a > seperate back as guitars,
Indeed, it's schalenhals (chordophones with shells, or bowls, and necks) vs. kastenhals (chordophones with boxes and necks), traditionally. Wandervogel lutes are proper lutes, whatever their barrings or stringings. Regards, Mathias -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
