On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 10:38AM, Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>{Incidentally, and as an utter aside, when did the lute first reach England?
Here's a link which basically accords with what I remember from my period of mandolin fanaticism:
http://users.argonet.co.uk/artlute/hist.html
The lute is derived from the oud and was known in Europe from about 1000 CE--and give the way those folks traveled, it was probably in England not long after it reached Italy. The first recognaizable lutes are 15th century--and the mandolin came from a Neapolitan variant.
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