> 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 Bill, insisting on using charango in medieval music is akin to insisting on using coconut milk in your caciucco, i.e. inappropriate, and disrespectful of the people of Maremma, not to say inedible. RT
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