minstrel: cool instruments

Blue bluecougar at ntlworld.com
Wed May 28 17:28:19 PDT 2003


At 15:28 28/05/03 -0400, dglenn at radix.net wrote:
>In a similar vein, there's the deutschlaut; I'm not
>sure how old it really is, but it has a wonderfully
>renaissance _look_.  (It's a bowl-backed, small-bodied
>guitar with gut/nylon strings and a scallopped fretboard.
>Functionally it's a nylon-strung folk guitar, but it's
>got a mellower sound and fits in visually at a renfest.
>I want one because I liked the feel of the scallopped
>fingerboard on the two that I've handled.)

Hi Glenn,

Do you have a URL or further info on the deutschlaut, sounds very much the 
kind of thing that would appeal to me (not that the instrument collection 
isn't groaning at the seams already!) but a quick google didn't get me very 
far..

Blue
(yes, the hobbitblue you know)




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