Are you suggesting hornet flies cross bred with hornets Roman??? Neill
Roman Turovsky wrote: > 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 > > --
