Not quite Italian, but here is as affordable a rebuild of an odd German-made vihuela from a few decades ago incorporating a slightly curved pegbox: http://www.neallutes.com/2009/09/vihuela-for-eugene-eugene-brought-me.html
I keep the bass courses in octave to be a little more "Italianate." Enjoy, Eugene > -----Original Message----- > From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On > Behalf Of wikla > Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 4:04 PM > To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Francesco and flat back lute? > > Thanks Daniel and Edward, > > I know that only very few Spanish vihuelas exists today. Did any Italian > version manage to survive? And has any modern luthier tried to recreate > those Italian "hand violas"? > > Arto > > > On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:54:31 -0500, Edward Martin <e...@gamutstrings.com> > wrote: > > Arto, > > > > The 1536 edition of Farancesco's works state that the pieces in this > > book are for liuto or viola. The reference to viola is viola da > > mano, which is essentially a vihuela da mano. There is a > > Raimondi engraving of a player of the viola da mano, in which the > > instrument resembles a vihuela da mano, with exception that the peg > > head was of the sickle design. It is standard thought these days > > that the Italian version may have had the sickle design. Otherwise, > > the viola in reference is one and the same as our concept of the > vihuela. > > > > ed > > > > > > > > At 02:20 PM 8/17/2010, wikla wrote: > >>Dear lutenists, > >> > >>didn't Francesco da Milano play also a flat back lute, "viola" or > >>something > >>like that. Perhaps the Neapolitian tabulature was connected to that > >>instrument? > >> > >>Years ago there was some discussion also here, if memory serves..., not > >>often does, though... ;-) > >> > >>But what is the latest "educated guess" (=science) of his flat back > lute? > >>Any recent analysis? > >> > >>Arto > >> > >> > >> > >>To get on or off this list see list information at > >>http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > > > > > > Edward Martin > > 2817 East 2nd Street > > Duluth, Minnesota 55812 > > e-mail: e...@gamutstrings.com > > voice: (218) 728-1202 > > http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1660298871&ref=name > > http://www.myspace.com/edslute
