----- Original Message ----- From: Eric Liefeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 5:56 pm Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: Vivaldi
> Hi Eugene, > > Much earlier than Presbler, et al, I'm very much taken by the six- > course 1652 > Matteo Sellas instrument in Paris (D.E.CI 7688). The museum calls > it a > "Mandoline", probably because of the sickle-shaped pegbox. Is it > wrong to > lust after such things? :-) If so, I'm all wrong! Still much bigger than the typical mandolino, but the Sellas is also substantially smaller than the later Presblers, Radice, etc., of course. Best, Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
