Dear Matthias,
another system of classifying musical instruments is by material (used in
India, China a.s.o). I think, there's at least as much logic in this system as
in the western european.
I do not have difficulties in applying the Sachs system to any instrument as a
material thing but doi
Dear Ed,
I suspect there are Japanese people adhering to the system of classifying
according to material of construction as there are such who have adopted the
Sachs-system.
I even remember a Japanese co-student of mine once reading us a paper about the
adoption of the western harmonic system
On Oct 15, 2005, at 6:43 AM, Ik1hdGhpYXMgUvZzZWwi wrote:
> Perhaps, Japanese musicologists will share the European traditional
> way
> of definining families of musical instruments. Perhaps they won't.
> Does
> that mean it's wrong in any kind of way? Would you suggest other ways
> than by us
> I agree with almost everything you write except that I would like to call
> instruments first and foremost by their proper names (especially if it comes
> to non western european instruments), that I would not like to call guitars
> lutes
nor should I. Lute instruments would be the traditiona
Dear Mathias,
I agree with almost everything you write except that I would like to call
instruments first and foremost by their proper names (especially if it comes to
non western european instruments), that I would not like to call guitars lutes
[and therefore have to admit that I am not able
> "Schalenhalslaute" and "Kastenhalslaute" - that's the terminology of Curt
> Sachs
Sachs's terminology was still kept e. g. by Dieter Klöckner, art.
zupfinstrumentenbau (construction of plucked instruments) / A Einführung
(introduction), B Gitarren- und Lautenbau (construction of lutes and
gui
Dear Mathias,
"Schalenhalslaute" and "Kastenhalslaute" - that's the terminology of Curt Sachs
and as his approach was purely based on the morphology of instruments (not on
their use, the way one produces sounds on them [e.g. by plucking strings or
bowing them] or their position in the culture t
"Joachim Lüdtke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
> Within the field of instruments in question I tend to think of instruments
> with a lute-back as lutes and of instruments with a back made of sides
> (unsure about the terminology, in German they are called "Zargen") and a
> seperate back as guita
Dear Kenneth,
thank you for your mail - I didn't know that my article would be of interest to
anyone outside Germany although I know that the guitar lute and its relatives
were not confined to the German spoken countries.
I have not mentioned Scholander because I am unsure about the extent to w
