And, of course, Dalla Casa played the 'arciliuto francese' - an instrument unkown in France at the time (mid 18th century)!
regards M --- On Sun, 27/1/13, Rob MacKillop <[email protected]> wrote: From: Rob MacKillop <[email protected]> Subject: [LUTE] Re: 4 course guitar in Italy To: "Monica Hall" <[email protected]> Cc: "Martyn Hodgson" <[email protected]>, "Lutelist" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, 27 January, 2013, 16:23 Just because I feel devilish, and wish to wind everyone up...things are just as bad in the 19th century, when the great Luigi Legnani advertised himself as a player of the Guitarra Francese...while playing an eight-string Austrian (Stauffer) guitar...based on a six-string Italian (Fabricatore) guitar. I think we are going to go round and round in circles with this one. Nice painting, Bill. I'd happily play 4c guitar music on it. Rob To get on or off this list see list information at [1]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
