----- Original Message ----- From: "Antonio Corona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "vihuela" <vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 6:12 AM Subject: Re: Batov workshop trip
> Dear Rob, > > I read with interest your account to A. Batov's > workshop, and I should state, with all due respect, > that I disagree with the identification of the > Dias-based instruments as vihuelas. This is a subject > on which I have already expressed my views on the > lute-list, and my reasons for objection to such an > identification are available on its archives. Dear Antonio, You are certainly entitled to express your opinion(s) but this is only your opinion and will continue to be so. The same applies to me. You perceive and understand things by bringing to bear upon your relevant knowledge, and in a similar way do I. As time goes on, more makers, researches etc can come up to their own ideas and conclusions about the matter. Perhaps somewhat different to yours and my. Only time and more indepth research (similar to the one which was undertaken with the E.0748 instrument by Musee de la Musique) can show who is closer to the truth. My opinion is that the Dias instrument in the RCM is a genuine 6-course vihuela with 1x1 + 2x5 arrangement of strings in courses. I, in turn, gave my reasons for this attribution of the Dias in the above mentioned discussion on the lute list, and in more details on my web site http://www.vihuelademano.com/vgcrossroads.htm >While I > don't intend to open again the can of worms, I > nevertheless felt that I should let statements > regarding the Dias guitar such as "many agree that > these instruments are suitable choices upon which to > base the construction of a vihuela" (only one luthier > as far as I know of), or the questionable description > of some instrument as "Dias vihuela in E" or "Dias > vihuela in A" pass unnoticed. Again, it is questionable for you (and perhaps for some others) but not for everybody. Nobody have a monopoly on truth here. And nothing passes unnoticed, that's for sure! > > With best wishes, > Antonio Regards, Alexander To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
