billkilpatrick
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frets
anyone with a stash of antique persian miniatures of inestimable value at hand? i'd like to know if evidence exists to suggest whether frets
were used on any stringed instruments for the playing of early arabic music. if so, were they double or single frets (as used on european lutes).
just idle curiosity...there's no thesis in the making.
ciao - bill
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Frets
Hi Bill
No Persian miniatures, unfortunately, but we were just talking about frets in early ouds in this thread:
http://www.mikeouds.com/messageboard/viewthread.php?tid=727
Cheers
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dear cb -
thank you - very interesting thread.
you might already be aware of it but this site has some interesting drawings of early european stringed instruments:
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/
grazie - bill
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Cantigas
Thanks for that link, Bill, some very interesting stuff there. I had heard of Alfonso X and the Cantigas, but didn't know much about them at all.
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