for those of us who are curious and extremely well off, over on mike's oud site there's this mention of an interesting, very old (1733), six-string lute for auction on ebay (us) with a swan's neck peg box:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Rare-6-chord-Lute-by-Johann-Christian-Hoffmann-1733_W0QQitemZ7405469411 - bill early music charango ... http://groups.google.com/group/charango ___________________________________________________________ Win a BlackBerry device from O2 with Yahoo!. Enter now. http://www.yahoo.co.uk/blackberry To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
