I've been watching this discussion with interest and I wonder if it's feasible to produce a taxonomy of plucked stringed instruments? In particular, is it possible to construct a 'key' with questions that distinguish one instrument from another, as botanists do with different kinds of orchid, for example?
I simply throw this in as an idea - I'm NOT volunteering - I'm too old to dodge the huge amounts of flak that would result. Bill From: Lex van Sante <[email protected]> To: lute mailing list list <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, 17 October 2012, 21:17 Subject: [LUTE] Re: Chitarrone Rebec and rebab spring to mind............. Lex Op 17 okt 2012, om 22:05 heeft Monica Hall het volgende geschreven: > Such as ? ............. > > > > Monica > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: [1]WALSH STUART > > To: [2]Monica Hall > > Cc: [3]Lutelist > > Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 8:56 PM > > Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: Chitarrone > > Other instruments than lutes have 'lute-shaped' bodies... > Stuart > > On 17 October 2012 20:29, Monica Hall <[4][1][email protected]> wrote: > > Well - what is the difference between a lute and a gittern/mandore. > When is a lute not a lute? Chitarrone as I understand it is a > large member of the lute family i.e. it has a lute shaped body. It > depends what you mean by separate traditions....... > Monica...getting more confused by the minute. > > Diego, unfortunately I cannot read Italian. Are you in agreement > with > Meucci? > Monica, the only things I know about Meucci's article are from > you. As > I understand it, Meucci isn't saying that the chitarrone is a > large > lute. The lute has its own, separate, traditions. The chitarrone > (he > is saying, I think) is a large (massive!) gittern (or > gittern/mandore). > Stuart > On 17 October 2012 18:34, Diego Cantalupi <[1][5][2][email protected]> > wrote: > If you can read Italian, you can find my dissertation about > Chitarrone here: > [2][6][3]http://www.diegocantalupi.it/tesi.pdf > The first chapter is about ethimology. > Diego >> > To get on or off this list see list information at > [3][7][4]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > -- > References > 1. mailto:[8][5][email protected] > 2. [9][6]http://www.diegocantalupi.it/tesi.pdf > 3. [10][7]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- > > References > > 1. mailto:[8][email protected] > 2. mailto:[9][email protected] > 3. mailto:[10][email protected] > 4. mailto:[11][email protected] > 5. mailto:[12][email protected] > 6. [13]http://www.diegocantalupi.it/tesi.pdf > 7. [14]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > 8. mailto:[15][email protected] > 9. [16]http://www.diegocantalupi.it/tesi.pdf > 10. [17]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. mailto:[email protected] 3. http://www.diegocantalupi.it/tesi.pdf 4. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 5. mailto:[email protected] 6. http://www.diegocantalupi.it/tesi.pdf 7. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 8. mailto:[email protected] 9. mailto:[email protected] 10. mailto:[email protected] 11. mailto:[email protected] 12. mailto:[email protected] 13. http://www.diegocantalupi.it/tesi.pdf 14. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 15. mailto:[email protected] 16. http://www.diegocantalupi.it/tesi.pdf 17. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
