== 6-course Viola/Vihuela with 11 pegs/strings, 16th cent == I take it Alexander and maybe others are looking for iconographical evidence of one of these? Or is it just an occurrence of asymmetrical L-R peg-count and arrangement on the _later_ style of peg-box that matters here?
http://www.vihuelademano.com/abrantes-vihuela.htm In any event, I accidentally noticed the same today on this (old familiar) icon, 6 (left) and 5 (right) pegs, for an early "eleven string viola" Girolamo Libri 1520: http://www.TheCipher.com/ViolaManoGirolamoLibri1520L.jpg http://www.TheCipher.com/ViolaMano_11peg_GLibri_1520.jpg Roger To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
