--- Anthony Hind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Because of this penury of data, I suppose we do tend
> to grab at the
> few existing lutes and the occasional passing
> allusion to reinforce
> the ideas we have about the instruments of a period.
>
Quite right. As I've said before, surviving
instruments mostly only tell us a lot about surviving
instruments. Look, for example, at the modicum of
surviving vihuelas, an instrument that was apparently
common not only in Spain, but Italy as well. This
also applies to the current academic pressure to use
gargantuan theorbos which are totally unsuitable for
solo music.
Chris
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