billkilpatrick
Jun-11-2004, 12:12am
i've just been given a tuning for my charango that makes it possible to play music written for the mandola (g-b-e-a-d.) it's also a banjo tuning, i note.
it's wonderful.
at what point, however, does my charango stop being that and become a mandola or a banjo? if i were to use a renaissance tuning on my oud, would that make it a fretless, renaissance lute?
does an instrument get its name from the sum of its parts or is it
tuning or contours and shape that makes it what it is?
- bill
it's wonderful.
at what point, however, does my charango stop being that and become a mandola or a banjo? if i were to use a renaissance tuning on my oud, would that make it a fretless, renaissance lute?
does an instrument get its name from the sum of its parts or is it
tuning or contours and shape that makes it what it is?
- bill