----- Original Message ----- From: bill kilpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, July 9, 2007 7:06 pm Subject: [LUTE] Re: richard III and the charango
> late at night ... the sandman is insistent ... but the > short answer to your question is: > > .. not a lot - they're all (i maintain) in the > vihuela family - jaranas, medianas, charangos, vihuela > de golpe, tiple, timple etc., etc.. Is the modern guitar then of the vihuela family? If not, why not impart that honor? Frankly, I tend to believe such "families" are facade at best. I don't believe in classifying musical instrument types by "family" because of the biotic connotations within which human-created works of art/craft will not be contained. If there are "family" designations that hold, they are extremely narrow (e.g., the standard violin family built as varying sizes of essentially the very same thing with, for the most part, identical relative standard tunings) or factual descriptions of sounding mechanism and the grossest features of construction in spite of any perceived "ancestry." In general, they all freely influence each other wherever they interact in a way biota cannot. Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
