Really, David? More, please! fretfully playing my oud,
Chris. On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 5:22 PM, David van Ooijen <[1]davidvanooi...@gmail.com> wrote: On 21 May 2011 23:08, Stuart Walsh <[2]s.wa...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > On 21/05/2011 21:47, Monica Hall wrote: >>> >>> It would do so as soon as it had frets on its neck. >> >> But when did that first happen? >> >> Monica (fretfully). >> > > According to Crawford Young, around 1400. (But the small lute-like gittern > was always (?) fretted). Ouds were fretted, before they become unfretted. David -- ******************************* David van Ooijen [3]davidvanooi...@gmail.com [4]www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* To get on or off this list see list information at [5]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. mailto:davidvanooi...@gmail.com 2. mailto:s.wa...@ntlworld.com 3. mailto:davidvanooi...@gmail.com 4. http://www.davidvanooijen.nl/ 5. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html