Fits and starts; bringing a failed 19th century instrument into the 21st-century!

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Mar 28, 2022

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Fits and starts; bringing a failed 19th century instrument into the 21st-century!

By Jonathan Eric Wilson

A long haired man in a peasant’s linen shirt grabs a bow and wields it to a guitar. Jimmy page in the 1960s? Nope. An Invading Moor applies a Rabab bow to a lute/vihuela in 15th century Spain. (* Lutes and Vihuelas are ancestors to the modern Guitar).…

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