> -----Original Message----- > From: Rob MacKillop [mailto:luteplay...@googlemail.com] > Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 3:46 AM > To: RALPH MAIER > Cc: vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu > Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Hi All > > Changing the subject only slightly...what is the earliest citation or > image for a capo?
[Eugene C. Braig IV] I think this came up very recently, but I can't remember the outcome...or maybe it was on a different forum. In any event, I can't provide any kind of definitive answer regarding iconography, but they were certainly well established by the era of baroque citterns, like English guittar. Grove cites the first written reference to capo tasto as G.B. Doni in his text Annotazioni (1640). Best, Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
