----- Original Message ----- From: David Tayler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, July 9, 2007 7:48 pm Subject: [LUTE] Re: richard III and the charango > > Many organologists classify the charango as a > lute; I think it would be difficult to trace the precise > line of development. I also think that it is not > impossible to have multiple lines of > acculturation from both flat and round backed > instruments.
"Lute" is sometimes even applied to any chordophone with strings fixed to resonant soundbox and stopped along a distinct neck extending from the soundbox, even violins (violin builders are still luthiers). Lutes are sometimes separated as plucked (but early vihuela seems to buck that generalization) and sometimes subdivided into long-necked ancestry (saz, collascione, sometimes guitar--but what then of similar vihuelas/violas if of bowed lineage?--etc.) and short-necked ancestry (oud, lute, etc.). Frankly, the concept of singular lines of ancestry often can't hold up across named instrument types. Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
