On Sat, Apr 15, 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I can't tell if the half moon piece below the pipes is part of the > instrument or some kind of fabric banner-like decoration.
alboka is a new one on me, thanks all. Corun, I would have thought the depiction of that half-circle too stiff to be anything fabric, my first thought was some kind of bellows. a double-clarinet? perhaps you meant the chalemaux? (predecessor of the clarinet). I thought proper clarinets begin mid 1600's with certain improvements making it possible to bridge the gap between the fundamental and the overblown registers. -- Dana Emery To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
