Stephan, you are reading too much into it. The lute stage-right has frets fanning out, but I'm afraid it wouldn't be temperamentally justified. I wouldn't trust Montagna's "lute design" too much, as he was too fine a designer, and knew very well that beauty is in deviation from the ideal. RT ______________ Roman M. Turovsky http://polyhymnion.org/swv
>> Maybe the higher math of just where to place those frets (and how many) >> never seemed to impress them. Number of strings and fingers are always >> right but frets... dang! >> > > Interesting though that the right lute has a slanted first fret. > > Stephan > > >> Maybe it's a left-brain, right-brain thing. >> >> s >> >> >> >> On Mar 29, 2005, at 6:43 PM, James A Stimson wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> And another thing: How come none of these artists get the fret >>> proportions >>> right, even though they seem to get everything else right? >>> By the way, the most accurate rendering of fret spacing I've ever >>> seen is >>> in a print by M.C. Escher, not exactly a contemporary of the >>> lutenists, but >>> very mathematical in his approach. >>> Cheers, >>> Jim >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> To get on or off this list see list information at >>> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >> >> > > >
