Very cool, David... on a billboard? We are so glad to finally see a member of the lute family on a billboard.
ed At 02:46 AM 3/21/2008 -0700, David Tayler wrote: >People have been asking if I also play these larger Theorbos, >So I have a picture of the largest one. > >http://www.voicesofmusic.org/klaus%20theorbo.html > > >At a length of 1400 centimeters (48 feet or so) it is basically >all-reentrant., or subentrant. >Currently strung in boat catline, from the pirate wreck that had the >dulcian on board. >The original rose was taken intact from a wooden cathedral in >Grenouille, France, famous also for the "Fourth Bear." > >There is also the tiorbinunculus at the bottom, only a few >centimeters long, a precise 1/50th scale of the larger one, used once >in the recording of Telemann's >"Gulliver's Travels." The tiorbinunculus is of course exactly the >size that it appears in the Praetorius book in that it will fit >easily on one page. > >Note that these measurements, like the new Talbot interpretations, >are of the whole body, not just the string length, >which allows the lowest notes to be above the audible threshhold of 20Hz. >Takes a bit of getting used to. >dt > > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG. >Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.21.8/1337 - Release Date: 3/20/2008 >8:10 PM Edward Martin 2817 East 2nd Street Duluth, Minnesota 55812 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (218) 728-1202
