>> My view is that it is most likely a guitar guitars have shallow bodies, by definition, or so I'm told. Whatsoever this is, it is not a guitar.
>> (or rather late 19thC german lute/guitar) conversion direct from a lute. wandervogel lutes (if that is what you meant to say) have single strings, not courses (i.e. double strings) >> There are numerous examples of 18thC Colachons/mandoras (see Gill et als) indeed. Why so much guesswork if the probable is so obvious. > I would have thought so, if not for the pegbox, which is rather elegant, and > entirely uncharacteristic of the Wandervogels. yes, indeed. -- Regards, Mathias -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
