Musical instrument
Hello! Thanks for your addition to musical instrument. I am working on the History section with a few different books. Do you know what page(s) from Kartomi your material came from? I'm trying to include page numbers in all my citations. --Laser brain (talk) 17:19, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
- Thank you, sir. Happy editing. --Laser brain (talk) 02:28, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
Byzantine lira
It's an interesting subject but I'd like to verify that it's the Byzantine instrument (i.e., from western Anatolia) and not any of the Arabic ones that was the point of origin for the European bowed lutes. The Crusaders went to many different areas of the Near East and there were probably more than one model of bowed lute found there, from more than one culture. Also, it shouldn't be oversimplified which ones it evolved into in Europe, as the lira da braccio, vielle, rebec, etc. are all very different in construction, and some came up from North Africa (which was not Byzantine, but Moorish). Oversimplification is important to avoid. Badagnani (talk) 03:06, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
The homeland of Byzantium was Greece (now western Turkey in Anatolia), so the pandura is a likely predecessor, at least as the shape indicates. Bowing technology was very late to develop so it's clear that plucked lutes preceded bowed ones. Badagnani (talk) 05:40, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
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