minstrel: cool instruments

[Tadhg O Cuileannain]

> If (as I suspect) you're referring to the German
> lute-guitars, you can find a picture in the Lark in
> the Morning catalog (www.larkinam.com).
> 
> These get a lot of flak from some people as being
> just
> modern guitars disguised as lutes, but in fact you
> can
> find period illustrations of very similar
> instruments
> with six single courses and a pear-shaped body,
> mostly
> from Northern Europe, 15th century on.  The period
> instruments have somewhat shorter necks and of
> course
> tied-on frets and friction pegs.  For maximum
> authenticity you would probably want to use lute
> tuning (3rd string F#).
> 
> On the matter of the saz, I know of at least two
> highly regarded professional early music ensembles
> that use it quite a bit (Sonus and Ensemble
> Unicorn),
> and that's good enough for me.  It's on my list of
> instruments to buy when my ship comes in...
> 
> Tadhg 
> 
> 
> 
> --- "dglenn at radix.net" <dglenn at saltmine.radix.net>
> wrote:
> > Blue wrote:
> > > At 15:28 28/05/03 -0400, dglenn at radix.net wrote:
> > > >In a similar vein, there's the deutschlaut; 
> > 
> > (I suspect I misspelled that -- there might be an
> > 'e' on
> > the end.)
> > 
> > > Do you have a URL or further info on the
> > deutschlaut, 
> > 
> > I haven't been able to narrow a web search enough
> to
> > find
> > anything about it on the web; what I know comes
> from
> > having
> > handled two of them, and having both owners tell
> me
> > that's
> > what they were called.  I'd love to learn more
> about
> > them
> > myself.
> > 
> > > sounds very much the 
> > > kind of thing that would appeal to me 
> > 
> > Hmm.  Yes, yes it does, doesn't it?  :-)  And they
> > the
> > ones I've seen had narrow necks, as well as
> smallish
> > bodies -- another factor in its favour for you,
> > right?
> > 
> > > (yes, the hobbitblue you know)
> > 
> > (I shouldn't have been surprised to find you
> > here...)
> > 
> > 					-- Glenn
> > 
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> Tadhg O Cuilleannain of One Thousand Eyes
> Tim Connor of Idaho Falls, Idaho
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Tadhg O Cuilleannain of One Thousand Eyes
Tim Connor of Idaho Falls, Idaho
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