Very interesting picture. Yes, I think I would agree with David, unless the painting has been poorly restored at some point. In any case, the 6th course is certainly a unison. Clearly they had excellent strings back then...
On 2 February 2013 15:39, Arthur Ness <arthurjn...@verizon.net> wrote: > Marin has been mentioned: > > Too bad that Mary Rasmussen is gone. She would have accomplished much, as > one can see from her start. (See Carlone for an extended list iof sites.) > > > http://www.lutevoice.com/luteiconography/Page%201.html > > http://www.klassiskgitar.net/imagesmain.html > > http://www.musico.it/Mariagrazia_Carlone/iconografia%20musicale.htm > > Martin, were you asking about Cavalcanti or about Chilesotti? My computer > crashed, but I saved everything except my eMail files. > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Shepherd" <mar...@luteshop.co.uk> > To: <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> > Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 11:29 AM > Subject: [LUTE] lute iconography on the web > > > >> Hi All, >> >> Can someone remind me of the best sources for lute pictures on the web? At >> the moment I'm particularly interested in stripey lutes with ribs of >> different colours - is the lighter colour nearly always the edge rib, or is >> that usually the darker colour? And is the capping strip the same colour as >> the edge rib, or the other colour? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Martin >> >> www.luteshop.co.uk >> >> >> >> >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > -- Sam Chapman Oetlingerstrasse 65 4057 Basel (0041) 79 530 39 91