> > Like I said, I've read Meucci's article. The trouble is that iconography > > doesn't say 'this is a chitarra Italiana'. > Surely it does. A 3-4course lute-shaped axe that looks like KUITRA looks > pretty obvious to me. > RT
It seems no more than a guess that this was the instrument that Millioni had in mind. The chitarrino overo chitarra Italiana, in guitar tuning. I also think that is likely that there were lute-shaped instruments that were sometimes called chitarra or chitarra Italiana or -Napoletana. The question is if this title was used sometimes for other four-course (guitar shaped and differently tuned) instruments as well. Lex To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
