--- Alexander Batov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Corrubias (1611) sums it up rather neatly as "the > guitar is a vihuela, > small in size and also of less strings, since it has > no more than five and > sometimes only four."
there's quite a lot in your answer - but for now, thanks heaps for the above. - bill "and thus i made...a small vihuela from the shell of a creepy crawly..." - Don Gonzalo de Guerrero (1512), "Historias de la Conquista del Mayab" by Fra Joseph of San Buenaventura. go to: http://www.charango.cl/paginas/quieninvento.htm ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html