what's interesting about grunfeld's comment on the figure is the mention of strolling players - itinerant, folk musicians - and small vihuelas. obviously, they existed in sufficient numbers in the early 16th cent. to be recorded in stone.
as mudarra's guitar had a figure "8" shape with neck, tuning platform and keys, bridge, nut, strings and was made of wood, i imagine the only thing he would find wildly perplexing about a charango is its name. - bill --- EUGENE BRAIG IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: bill kilpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Saturday, December 17, 2005 5:57 pm > Subject: [VIHUELA] the smoking ... derringer ... > double barrelled > > > grunfeld's caption for the photo is doubly > interesting > > in that he refers to the instrument represented > there > > as " ... a small vihuela or tiple of the sort used > by > > strolling players in the early 16th century." > > The same caption titles the image "Comedian with a > guitar." Of course, he doesn't cite any period > texts for any of these names. > > > not conclusive proof of the vihuela/charango > > connection by any means, but ... there it is > folks. > > Do you need proof? This isn't a real point of > contention. My 6-string guitars have the very same > conceptual ties to the plucked strings to have gone > before as your charangos do. Denying connections of > modern chordophones to older ones would be > difficult; modern guitars and charangos didn't > simply spring into being. Modern guitars and > charangos still are modern guitars and charangos. > In spite of ancestry, whatever the ancestry, my > guitars are not quite like the 16th-c. vihuelas and > 4-course guitars Mudarra had in mind. > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com
