Brad McEwen wrote:
Hi:
Gavin Davenport sent me a link to eBay where there was a Paul hathway
Renaissance cittern for sale. bidding has now ended on that one, but there
is an EG for sale there. It says mid 18th C English Guittar by james Earp.
However, it has a Portugues style
Doc Rossi wrote:
Bonjour,
I was watching a few things on YouTube and found this interesting
item. Identify the cittern hanging over Maddy's right shoulder. Some
other nice instruments hanging in the room, to go with a solid body
dulcimer and the sky-blue Tele.
Doc Rossi wrote:
Off the top of my head: Rob MacKillop has recorded one CD dedicated
to this instrument and plays it on others as well. There are at least
two Japanese players. It became my main instrument about 10 years
ago. I've recorded one CD and am working on a second of solos and
James A Stimson wrote:
Dear All:
Isn't the cittern, both in painting and literature, a symbol of
promiscuity? The image of a cittern on a barbershop wall suggests that it
could be played by anyone who walks in.
And isn't cittern-head an old insult, akin to wooden-head?
The company on a
Frank Nordberg wrote:
? Guitarra was originally the Iberian name for the gittern or some other
cittern-like instrument.
Frank, I think it is all one single root possibly confusing two
Indo-European compound words, each meaning 'so many strings'. kythera,
cythera, zither, cistre, cetra,
Roger E. Blumberg wrote:
Those tuners always did make me scratch my head a bit. I guess they were
pretty ingenious for use with wire pre individual geared-machine tuners. I
imagine there'd be less initial slippage with them than even on the later
machines, and fine-tuning too would be far easier
Frank Nordberg wrote:
11) http://people.freenet.de/Maultrommel/klassifikation.htm
In 1925 somebody named Alban Voigt wrote an article about the history of
the jews harp. Probably not the same person.
I would suggest 1914 as a possible date for Alban Voigt's exit from
business - the
Rob MacKillop wrote:
It is old hat, David. The link to your image doesn't work for me, but I
think it would show the same image which has been on my website for many
years: http://www.musicintime.co.uk/varioushistories.htm and Peter Forrester
wrote an article about it for Lute News (which
Peter Forrester wrote:
My article about the ceiling is in the Lute Society Journal for 1987. An
earlier article was in the Recorder and Music Magazine 2, 1966 by Anthony
Rowland-Jones. A poem concerning the Muses occupies the sides of the
ceiling beams and twice contains the date 1599. The
Roger E. Blumberg wrote:
I just learned about this combination of instruments and it's name a couple
days ago -- it was common pairing apparently. The 3 or 4 string drone harp
played with a stick is called a Tambour de Béarn, string drum, or Ttun
Ttun. Here's a couple more examples of pipe and
Rob MacKillop wrote:
Doc has uploaded soundfiles and scores to his pages on the musicintime
website. To tour his informative and entertaining site, go to
www.musicintime.co.uk and click on Doc Rossi. Or go direct to
http://www.musicintime.co.uk/DocRossi/mp3files.htm for the soundfiles and
scores.
Roger E. Blumberg wrote
there was so much variation, and so little standardization, that it's hard
to pin things down to one visual sound-bite if you will. The Signorelli
fresco is c.1500, so the instrument at top dead center is definately a
vihuela-viola. Big instruments apear to have been
Rob MacKillop wrote:
I'll look at it when I have more time, Frank. But just a follow-up on
something you mentioned earlier: there are actually 96 airs for the seasons.
Well, coming from Crail which is quite capable of having 24 seasons in
one day, he would have to write 96 to cover all the
Study the photos of the Gibson cittern:
http://www.palmguitars.nl/archive/tales/wgibson.html
The thumb groove in the neck confirms a very un-classical way of
handling - but... it would really have been needed, because this is not
a six-course model, it has seven courses: three single basses,
Martyn Hodgson wrote:
David,
Thank you; I've known and debated with Eph for many years and am copying him
into this. Whether or not his identification of yr string remnants is
correct may be open to question. I can see his thought processes but would
like a little more
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