bill kilpatrick wrote: > i don't > think i'll ever get you to acknowledge the historic > validity of my cute little chordaphone of choice
Nobody here has said that the charango doesn't have historical validity, although we do have one crank on the list who seems to have such a low opinion of the charango's position in the musical world that he keeps insisting that it's the "vihuela" that Mudarra and Milan wrote for. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html