----- Original Message ----- From: "Roman Turovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Roger E. Blumberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "bill kilpatrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Antonio Corona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Lute Net" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 4:01 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: For Bill -- Small bodied vihuela-viola-guitars come charango?
> > The implications of this seem clear to me. Calling charango a vihuela, and > > recognizing it as being in the vihuela/guitarra family, a descendant and > > offspring of, as it clearly is, seems fair game. There is more than enough > > precedence, and in the lands and by the peoples who first gave us both the > > term and class of instrument, the heritage. > That very well may be, but Bill's quest is not about that, He simply wants > to play medieval music on his charango AND be authentic. > As we say in Russian, he wants to "mangiare il pesce, ma non pagare col > culo". > Not possible, sorry. > RT I'd have to agree, that would be hard to pull off. A four course gittern or lute would save everyone a lot of headaches. Or even something based on the Salamanca viola -- if he wants something more vihuela-esque yet still medieval (14th century, presumably). http://tinyurl.com/ahlcp Roger To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
