These pictures here from Cantigas de Santa Maria were looked at up and down, by countless people. It is hard to deny that most likely, those lute-ouds do not have frets.
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/images/03.gif Of course, some people argue that, as always, a pencil-challenged illuminator just did not care for drawing the frets. Then we look at a fretted and fretless guitar-things next to each other: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/images/15.gif LXR On Sun, 22 May 2011 09:42:06 +0200 David van Ooijen <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh, people who know better should step in. > What I understand is fretless oud playing is a relative modern (how > modern I do not know) thing. What I understand is early (how early I > do not know) Arabian music treatises have fretting schemes with tuning > systems for oud. > > David - fretting for theorbo concert today > -- > To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
