I've heard the guitar part in Mahler's Seventh Symphony done with a steel-string instrument.
On Dec 20, 2009, at 7:54 AM, <chriswi...@yahoo.com> <chriswi...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Already with Webern we may ask ourselves what exactly the > appropriate instrument really is. The Stauffer-style type of > guitar construction remained current in Austria well into the > 1920's. Certainly the heavily-built nylon string instrument is > out! I would love to research the status of the guitar in early > 20th-century Vienna. There's a new idea: Second Viennese > Performance Practice! -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
