At 8:00 AM -0400 10/4/11, timothy.price wrote: >On Oct 3, 2011, at 5:23 PM, John Howell wrote: > >> books that show plates of >> top quality museum violins and have written >> descriptions of them. > >Does the name have anything to do with the shape if the letter? >If so, then in English we would use "f " a lower case scripted >character. This is Lucida Calligraph and looks appropriate to me.
Of course it does, just as the term C-hole has to do with the shape of the letter when that cutout is used on violas da gamba, but it specifically does in English, and the early violin family makers were working for the most part in northern Italy. So I wonder what the Italian term was or is. But that was exactly the original question: does the shape of the icon as it is carved control the shape of the letter to be used in typescript? Your Lucida Calligraph did not come through, possibly because I might not have that font on my computer, or because I have my email configured to use Chicago for display. I brought up the long ess incorrectly, since the difference between that and the f is whether there is a projection to the right of the letter or not. And on a violin family instrument there is. In fact those projections (the cross stroke) are used to line up the placement of the bridge. John -- John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music Virginia Tech Department of Music School of Performing Arts & Cinema College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences 290 College Ave., Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0240 Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 (mailto:john.how...@vt.edu) http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html "Machen Sie es, wie Sie wollen, machen Sie es nur schön." (Do it as you like, just make it beautiful!) --Johannes Brahms _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
