i don't know how relevant the following source of information will be for you but variations in bourdon placement on a wide variety of 4 and 5 course, south american chordaphones - call them what you will - indicates that no one, particular configuration was favoured:
http://pacoweb.net/index2.html - 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
