I have been listening to classical music radio stations all of my life, and I have worked several years as an announcer for two such stations. I have never heard any announcers (some of whom had been professional musicians), ever refer to the violin as an "Italian violin," nor have I ever heard any of them refer to a tenor recorder as an "English flute." Nor did I ever do so myself.

Also—I studied classical music for three years at the University of Washington School of Music and two years at the Cornish School of the Arts (basically, a conservatory) and I never heard any national designation used by either professors or students for any musical instrument.

With the exception of "French horn," which is actually a German horn, referred to in the English language, erroneously, as a "French horn;"   and "English horn," or "cor anglais" which is neither English (it, too, originated in Germany) nor a horn. It is a double-reed woodwind.

When I was in school, one or two people did refer to my classical guitar as a "Spanish guitar" (mainly in an effort to distinguish the nylon-string classical guitar from the steel-string guitar or the electric guitar), but the "Spanish" guitar I was using at the time was made by C. F. Martin & Co. of Nazareth, Pennsylvania.

I currently own four guitars. Two of them actually came from Spain. One of them is a classic and the other is a flamenco, both made in Madrid. I also have a very fine classic guitar which was made in Japan. And a small nylon-string travel guitar made in San Diego, California.

Don Firth