On Jan 4, 2009, at 3:53 PM, Christopher Stetson wrote: > Further, his fingering seems to have little to do with either the > placement of the frets or the music that his instrument produces.
Thanks for this scholarly musicological report. For those relatively new to the list, who therefore may not have caught this reference the last time it came up, here is a wonderful study on the "air lute:" http://www.thehendricks.net/air_lute.htm -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html