I agree with almost everything you write except that I would like to call
instruments first and foremost by their proper names (especially if it comes
to non western european instruments), that I would not like to call guitars
lutes
nor should I. Lute instruments would be the traditional
On Oct 15, 2005, at 6:43 AM, Ik1hdGhpYXMgUvZzZWwi wrote:
Perhaps, Japanese musicologists will share the European traditional
way
of definining families of musical instruments. Perhaps they won't.
Does
that mean it's wrong in any kind of way? Would you suggest other ways
than by use or
Dear Ed,
I suspect there are Japanese people adhering to the system of classifying
according to material of construction as there are such who have adopted the
Sachs-system.
I even remember a Japanese co-student of mine once reading us a paper about the
adoption of the western harmonic system
Dear Matthias,
another system of classifying musical instruments is by material (used in
India, China a.s.o). I think, there's at least as much logic in this system as
in the western european.
I do not have difficulties in applying the Sachs system to any instrument as a
material thing but
Dear Mathias,
Schalenhalslaute and Kastenhalslaute - that's the terminology of Curt Sachs
and as his approach was purely based on the morphology of instruments (not on
their use, the way one produces sounds on them [e.g. by plucking strings or
bowing them] or their position in the culture to
Schalenhalslaute and Kastenhalslaute - that's the terminology of Curt
Sachs
Sachs's terminology was still kept e. g. by Dieter Klöckner, art.
zupfinstrumentenbau (construction of plucked instruments) / A Einführung
(introduction), B Gitarren- und Lautenbau (construction of lutes and
guitars)
Dear Mathias,
I agree with almost everything you write except that I would like to call
instruments first and foremost by their proper names (especially if it comes to
non western european instruments), that I would not like to call guitars lutes
[and therefore have to admit that I am not able
Joachim Lüdtke [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
Within the field of instruments in question I tend to think of instruments
with a lute-back as lutes and of instruments with a back made of sides
(unsure about the terminology, in German they are called Zargen) and a
seperate back as guitars,
Dear Kenneth,
thank you for your mail - I didn't know that my article would be of interest to
anyone outside Germany although I know that the guitar lute and its relatives
were not confined to the German spoken countries.
I have not mentioned Scholander because I am unsure about the extent to
