ARIA is a Japanese firm founded in Nagoya by Shiro Arai<sic> in 1956. They make electric guitars, for the most part, and acoustic Dreadnoughts. No longer make lutes. --ajn ----- Original Message ----- From: Christopher Witmer To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2006 6:25 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Can anyone provide some insight into this instrument for me?
Thanks to the kind folks who have responded so far. I have a bit more information: the lute has the brand name "ARIA." I did a quick Google search and it seems like a 1970s-1980s brand (?) I could only find a reference to a 7-8 course Renaissance model; nothing like this one. And also I found someone saying it was an American instrument and someone else saying it was a Japanese instrument, so I don't know what to think. FWIW . . . Thanks! Chris Witmer Tokyo Daniel Josua Koenig wrote: > Dear Chris, > > I think this lute dont look so good that I would buy it for a moment in > which your daughter can play it. For me it looks a litle bit heavy and also > the model I dont like for a 10-11 curse lute. Maybe you can see who made it. > There are lutes from germany around the year 1970 who are realy heavy and > more like guitars and you cant play it like a lute. For me it is looking a > little bit like one of this lutes. > Also I think that if your daugther loves the music there will be come the > day in which she chooses a instrument she loves too. That will be a > Instrument from which she probably is acompanied for the rest of her life > and I think it would be a litle bit frustrating if she must play this lute > who daddy once bought. > > Regards Daniel To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html --
