But hornet-fly borrowed the stripes for its progeny. RT ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eugene C. Braig IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Stuart Walsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Roman Turovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 10:54 AM Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: [Viols] "cello" - Italian
> At 03:32 PM 3/18/2007, Stuart Walsh wrote: >>Roman Turovsky wrote: >> > And I do. One of the earliest pieces of iconographic evidence shows a >> > sevenstringer with a raised fingerboard. >> > It is in my torban pages "regional iconography". >> > RT >> > >> > >>Guitars have been made with lots of variations in design and tuning. >> >>For example, Russian guitars - with seven strings and detachable necks. >>Good job that they've got raised fingerboards. > > > Personally, I don't really think of Russian guitar as cittern. Yes, they > are tuned to an open chord similar to some citterns, but most I've > personally encountered are structurally much more similar to Viennese > guitars than waisted citterns. This is another reason that biological > analogies don't translate directly to instrument organology. Luthiers are > free to borrow inspiration for new developments from completely dissimilar > instruments. No horse can borrow an elephant trunk for its progeny. > > Eugene > > To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
