If there is proof of baroque guitars from tortoise shells (or Armadillo or
whatever...) why not build a vihuela or a 4 course guitar of solid maple?
In Europe you are far more likely to come across a Maple-tree than a
Tortoise of Armadillo :)
Waling
PS. I don't know if these URL's survive sending them by email. The Jean
Voboam 'charango':
http://mediatheque.cite-musique.fr/ClientBookLineCIMU/recherche/NoticeDetailleByID.asp?ID=0161567
----- Original Message -----
From: "bill kilpatrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 1:18 PM
Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: seeking out the soft underbelly of a hard shelled
question
that most excellent of men, my husband, has laid himself down in a
darkened room with a damp handkerchief over his head ... what has
happened!?!
- ramona
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=3Dbillkilpatrick
--- On Tue, 13/5/08, Peter Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
It is nearly thirty years since I saw the Voboam 'charango' then in the
Paris Conservatoire museum, and I remember it as a sophisticated version
of
the South American instrument - tatou (armadillo) rather than tortue
(tortoise). But it certainly uses tortoiseshell and is probably on their
website.
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