I think that double frets are considered commonplace among our very near cousins in the HIP viol crowd, so we shouldn't be surprised to find that they were used on lutes of the same period.
- Peter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sean Smith" To: Lutelist Subject: Re: Built-in action? Double frets Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 16:25:48 -0700 > > > Thanks Gernot! And Peter, I knew there was another Holbein that > depicted double frets. I just couldn't remember which. > thank you. > > Concerning the Poulton/Dowland image. Perhaps it was overkill to double > the frets on a small lute. So far it hasn't been worth it to "double > up" on my descant. > > Sean > > > On Jun 19, 2005, at 4:14 PM, Peter Weiler wrote: > > > Intersting to note though that the Berlin Holbein, depicting a quite > > different lute, also shows clear doubles. > > > > - Peter > > > > " I would Like to see that, so everyone can see the details involved in > > clearly showing double frets. As I'm sure that this painting shows DF's > > it > > still is not convincing evidence that this was a wide spread custom." > > > > -- ___________________________________________________________ > > Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com > > http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm > > > > > > -- > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm --
