On 21 May 2011 23:08, Stuart Walsh <[email protected]> wrote: > On 21/05/2011 21:47, Monica Hall wrote: >>> >>> It would do so as soon as it had frets on its neck. >> >> But when did that first happen? >> >> Monica (fretfully). >> > > According to Crawford Young, around 1400. (But the small lute-like gittern > was always (?) fretted).
Ouds were fretted, before they become unfretted. David -- ******************************* David van Ooijen [email protected] www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
