found the following on this wonderful site: http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Main_Page
"...Of course we do not mean that it has all the intervals necessary to form scales in all those keys, but that we find it playing tunes that are in one or other of them." 4 Mr Ellis considers that the natural scale of the chaunter of the bag-pipe corresponds most nearly with the Arab scale of Zalzal, a celebrated lutist who died C. A.D. Boo." would just love to know what calendar corresponds to "C. A.D. Boo" - maybe time will tell. here's what they had on musical instruments in 1911: http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Category:Musical_instruments ___________________________________________________________ All New Yahoo! Mail Tired of unwanted email come-ons? Let our SpamGuard protect you. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
