At 01:12 PM 5/12/2005, Monica Hall wrote: >How about - Santiago de Murcia never went to Mexico (there is actually no >evidence he did). > >I think he stayed at home in Madrid teaching Andriani's umpteen children to >play the guitar...
Yeah, that's good controversy. At 03:46 PM 5/12/2005, Martin Shepherd wrote: >As far as I know, the evidence for unison stringing is sparse, to say >the least. John Ward's (1955) PhD thesis makes some statement to the >effect that unisons were used and this has become established "fact", >even though I have never seen the evidence (if any) on which he based >this assertion. > >Pisador's tuning instructions imply a unison 4th course, but say nothing >about the rest. This is even better. I wish I could answer. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
