Roman wrote: So you went for a bonsai lute.......................... Leave it to you to have nothing good to say to, or about, anyone. We went for what we perceived as an accurate portrayal of some of the Lutes being played. Incidentally bonsai is a tree in a pot.
Vance Wood. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roman Turovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "lute list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 8:38 PM Subject: Re: Iconography (was:The Right Hand Revisited) > > I think a lot of the Lutes we use today are overly large. When my Lute was > > built, the first efforts of a friend and myself at doing this, it was > > decided, after looking at a lot of "Iconography", that the Lutes represented > > were quite a bit smaller than those popular today. This conclusion was > > reached after making measurements of the instruments depicted and comparing > > them to the size of the faces of the people shown playing them. > > Understanding that the human face has a rather average size over all, it was > > decided that the Lutes in these paintings were for the most part in the > > 50cm-55cm range and not what we call average today, being around 60cm. > So you went for a bonsai lute.......................... > RT > ______________ > Roman M. Turovsky > http://turovsky.org > http://polyhymnion.org > > >
