Re: Period vs Modern instruments?

"Jerry Kohl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> The arpeggione's problems are, to my ear, more acoustic than to do with
six
> strings on one bridge. Viola da gamba players manage very well with six
and
> even seven strings on one bridge--it's a matter of proper bridge curvature
> and technique. The problem with the 19th-century inventors of the
arpeggione
> seems to have been that they were unaware that it had been done before,
and
> so they were denied the benefit of several hundred years of experience in
> building such instruments. The baryton seems to have been somewhat less
> encumbered with this problem, probably because it was developed when the
> gamba was still more or less fresh in makers' memories.
>

Aha.  I guess the reports I read were false, or
about a different instrument.  Should work
on 6 string bowed instruments continue?