Francois responded to my question:

>Do you mean you do not know what a traverso is? If you were Italian or
>French, it would not be difficult. It is a flute. The name is generally
>used for a baroque instrument.

Wow, seeing this gave me a bit of a start!  What a different world it
was when I wrote to ask my question!  Post-Y2K and pre-9/11.  At the
time, and being a Polish-German-Austrian American, I wasn't sure.  I
guess I should have known what a traverso is.  Thanks for responding.
Thanks, also, for letting date when I first got the Vivaldi set.  It
doesn't seem like 4 years ago.

Ron Chaplin
Iselin, New Jersey, USA