--- Howard Posner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> charangophile that's vihuelaphile and i believe - as the song goes - i just got the goodbye look. these are all good points i've raised - interesting and original - and all i've received in return is what amounts to a company line. i don't know why this should be - it's not as if you've got thesis's to defend. the chordaphones of the new world came from europe: they're period instruments. to think otherwise denies common sense and the eyes in your collective heads. i've saved the best for last. i know i've mentioned it before but don't recall anyone responding to it: the ukulele is a european instrument, directly linked to an early tradition. its arrival in the new world is well documented and it hasn't changed a bit since. its association with hawaii is so complete that its hawaiian name is universally accepted to be its real name. why? we know it ain't so. what manner of thinking is at play here? the emperor is naked and the charango is a vihuela. thanks guys, it's been fun. i've got a stack of medieval and renaissance tunes to learn on my beautiful new mandolin (m-4 from mid-missouri mandolin co. in the united states - have a look at their site) and the olive trees need work done to them for harvest. mega ciao and thanks - bill "and thus i made...a small vihuela from the shell of a creepy crawly..." - Don Gonzalo de Guerrero (1512), "Historias de la Conquista del Mayab" by Fra Joseph of San Buenaventura. go to: http://www.charango.cl/paginas/quieninvento.htm ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
