----- Original Message ----- From: Christopher Witmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 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 . . . Aria was a Japanese brand (as far as I know, they've outsourced much to all of their production to less expensive Asian places now). They are a mass-producer of decent quality classical guitars, but they are a mass producer. Best, Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
