For a different take on Choc lute, see the sad story of Nicholas Smith on this page
[1]http://users.stargate.net/~blink/imagepg.html Unfortunately the image link doesn't work any longer - who knows what it might have revealed. P ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jelma van Amersfoort <[2]jel...@gmail.com> Date: Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 1:40 PM Subject: [LUTE] Peg count on Choc lute To: [3]l...@cs.dartmouth.edu Dear lutenists, Can anyone shed some light on this: Why doe the Choc liuto attiorbato in the Victoria and Albert Museum have 14 pegs on the first peghead? See: [4]http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/furniture/musical_instruments/objec ts/object.php?action=&id=4&id2=0&hits=&page=&pages=&object_type=&countr y=&start_year=&end_year=&object=&artist= Or: [5]http://www.vam.ac.uk/apps/objects/1592_musical_instruments/images/fu llsize/7756-1862.jpg Were there still players that used a double first course around the supposed-date-of-origin of this instrument (1650)? Or is it a restoration mistake? Or is there an esthetical reason for it, like the pleasing effect of having equal rows of pegs on both sides of the first peghead? I'm asking partly because Martin de Witte is in the process of making a copy of this instrument for me (I'm very excited) (actually, he's building TWO, one in grenadil and one in yew), and he asked if I wanted 13 or 14 pegs on the first head. I'm going for 14, but I'm very interested in your opinions! Thanks, Jelma van Amersfoort, Amsterdam To get on or off this list see list information at [6]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- Peter Martin Belle Serre La Caulie 81100 Castres France tel: 0033 5 63 35 68 46 e: [7]peter.l...@gmail.com web: [8]www.silvius.co.uk [9]http://absolute81.blogspot.com/ [10]www.myspace.com/sambuca999 [11]www.myspace.com/chuckerbutty -- References 1. http://users.stargate.net/~blink/imagepg.html 2. mailto:jel...@gmail.com 3. mailto:lute@cs.dartmouth.edu 4. http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/furniture/musical_instruments/objects/object.php?action=&id=4&id2=0&hits=&page=&pages=&object_type=&country=&start_year=&end_year=&object=&artist= 5. http://www.vam.ac.uk/apps/objects/1592_musical_instruments/images/fullsize/7756-1862.jpg 6. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 7. mailto:peter.l...@gmail.com 8. http://www.silvius.co.uk/ 9. http://absolute81.blogspot.com/ 10. http://www.myspace.com/sambuca999 11. http://www.myspace.com/chuckerbutty
