Equally spaced ie not graduated in any kind of Pythagorean construct ? Give a cute little girl who is having to rearrange the string spacing to accomodate her little hand an instrument with an abnormally long fingerboard with ungraduated fret spacing... it's a prop. I rest my case ladies and gentlemen. She's still cute. Dale ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roman Turovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "baroque lute list" <baroque-lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>; "Ed Durbrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "peter rauscher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Dale Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 10:30 AM Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Pesne
> There is a 14 fret Schelle in Budapest. > RT > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dale Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "baroque lute list" <baroque-lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>; "Ed Durbrow" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "peter rauscher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 12:24 PM > Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Pesne > > >> Okay, >> If you're going to make the reach easier, one would have the string >> spacing compressed > toward the hand edge of the fingerboard not <away >> from >> it. Just me? >> Thirteen equally spaced frets on the neck, abnormal, at least for 18th >> century west & central european terrestrial lute.(don't want to step on >> anyone's toes here. Might be "the thing" for "air lute") >> Dale >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "peter rauscher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "baroque lute list" <baroque-lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>; "Ed Durbrow" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Dale Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 4:38 AM >> Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Pesne >> >> >>> Dear List, >>> I think on the painting there is a real lute played by the beautiful >>> lady. >>> I >>> think the reason for the strange stringing is that the sattle and the >>> distance between the strings was changed to fit the smaller fingers of a >>> young lady. >>> do you think the red color of the bass strings is because they are wound >>> with copper? >>> I counted 13 frets - not unusual. >>> >>> regards from austria, >>> peter >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Dale Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> To: "baroque lute list" <baroque-lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>; "Ed Durbrow" >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 6:22 AM >>> Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Pesne >>> >>> >>> As for accuracy, I think there are a couple too many frets for >>> reality.Which >>> makes the whole lute thing look more like a prop. She sure is cute. Too >>> bad, >>> she's probably dead by now. >>> Dale >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Ed Durbrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> To: "baroque lute list" <baroque-lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> >>> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 12:46 PM >>> Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Pesne >>> >>> >>>>I like her right hand. It looks very relaxed. The pinky is outside >>>> the bridge and I bet she would have slid the whole hand gracefully >>>> upwards when she needed to reach the lowest sounding courses, keeping >>>> the little finger outside and parallel to the bridge the whole time. >>>> I'm sure she could play and remain pretty and dignified alla Mary >>>> Burwel. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> To get on or off this list see list information at >>>> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > > >
