From: "Sandra Davis" To: , "Rex Deaver" Cc: "Joshua Badgley" , Subject: Re: Acappella barony - Mountain Dulcimer Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 00:49:01 -0700 >> Mountain dulcimers are simple to learn and sound really >>good ( but aren't period ). >This is a slight misconception here. Mountain Dulcimers, per >se are not period, but they have period anscestors that are >very similar to the modern mountaind dulcimer. I have primary source documentation (in one of these piles somewhere) that the period equivalent of the mountain dulcimer was referred to in Germany as the "Sheitholt" (I am not absolutely positive on the spelling). There are several extant examples in various museums. While the Sheitholt did not have the "waisted" shape of the modern mountain dulcimer, nor the heart shaped cut-outs, it did appear to be equivalent in almost every other aspect. >I say the equivalent is comparing a recorder with baroque >fingering to a recorder with medieval fingering--close enough >to get by with in our Society at least. Based on my research, I would have to agree. YIS- Isolde ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send email to majordomo@pbm.com containing the words "unsubscribe minstrel". If you are subscribed to the digest version, say "unsubscribe minstrel-digest". To contact a human about problems, send mail to owner-minstrel@pbm.com