No. But I've seen lutes interbreed. RT ----- Original Message ----- From: "Neill Vanhinsberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Roman Turovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Lutelist" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 1:12 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: [Viols] "cello" - Italian
> 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 >> >> > > -- >
