The picture is located in the Royal Academy of Music, London.
Best,
Paolo
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Il 28/07/2013 13:26, David Van Edwards ha scritto:
Dear Bill,
Thanks very much for alerting us to that. No, I don't know the
picture at all and I notice that the first question in the comments
section is asking where it is. No answer as yet, maybe he will
respond later.
There is also the conjecture which Lynda Sayce put forward that his
"theorbo", which was destroyed after being kept until the 19th
century in an Oxford college, was in fact, like Pepys,' a 12 course
double header, of either sort. And this picture *could* be consistent
with either of those. So possibly you're again up with the zeitgeist
in building your extended neck double-header!
On that design, it is noticeable that there are many more of them in
French iconography than of the English/Netherlandish curly pegbox
sort and that they do die out pretty quickly. So maybe Mary Burwell
tutor is referring to that sort when it talks of the French taking
them up and then dropping them. True it refers to Gaultier having
invented the form and we have the engraving of Gaultier holding the
curly sort but it is at least conceivable that he actually "invented"
the straight form while still in France and then later in England
taking up or "inventing" the curly form with its stepped basses.
Certainly the Burwell tutor's disparagement of "them long basses"
fits rather more with the straight form, several of which are shown
with really quite long basses. As indeed has the Rauwolf survivor in
Copenhagen.
Best wishes,
David
At 09:19 +0100 28/7/13, William Samson wrote:
Hi,
In today's Telegraph (I hope those of you from outside the UK will be
able to access this link!) there's an article about Lawes and his music
and it's accompanied by a portrait of him that I've never seen before
now.
[1][3]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classical-music-guide/10199
855/Ivan-Hewetts-Classic-50-No-31-William-Lawes-Fantazy-from-Consort-Se
tt-a-6-in-F.html
I would guess it's a 10-course instrument, but it's impossible to tell
from the image.
Bill
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