Quite correct, Jean-Michel ! I was too quick in my response and Dimitri's interpretation needed érevision" ;-). So all the gear up an octave except courses 1 and 2... I will have to try that one day :-)
Salut et à bientôt, ;-) Jean-Marie -------------- >I don't understand the text of Besard like that (nor Souris did, and he >explain that widely in his introduction of the CNRS Besard). All the courses >from 10th to 3rd are an octave up, and the 2 top strings are as "normal" G >lute (so re-entrant tuning, not far from tiorbino). > >Le Mercredi 21 mai 2014 23h45, Thomas Walker <twlute...@hotmail.com> a écrit : > > > > Thanks kindly, everyone! It's what I suspected, but the comparative > rarity of an "ordinary" lute in reentrant tuning sent my looking for > some verification. > Cheers, > tom > > Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 20:17:25 +0200 > > To: mar...@luteshop.co.uk; lute@cs.dartmouth.edu > > From: jmpoiri...@wanadoo.fr > > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Besard's Novus Partus > > > > " Nous appelons celui-ci "Nouveau Luth" non parce qu'il aurait une > forme (construction) nouvelle, mais seulement `a cause du nouvel > accord, qui n'est pas ingrat selon l'opinion de maintes (personnes). > C'est nous qui l'avons invente un jour. S'il differe peu en accord du > theorbe (comme on l'appelle), pourtant bien avant de connaitre cet > instrument j'accordais souvent le luth de cette maniere, mieux apte > pour la musique de n'importe quelle voix. Et ce seulement parce que > (par rapport `a l'accord ordinaire) la basse frappe l'oreille de fac,on > plus claire, sonore et nette. Pourtant pour cet accord il est > absolument necessaire de composer de morceaux speciaux." > > > > Voici la traduction du passage de Besard proposee par Dimitri > Goldobine... > > > > Re-best, ;-) > > > > Jean-Marie > > -------------- > > > > >I think Besard explains the Nova Testudo in his preface - can > someone > > >help with the text? As I remember it is top two courses down an > octave, > > >like the theorbo. > > > > > >M > > >On 21/05/2014 18:10, Thomas Walker wrote: > > >> Hello all-- > > >> Do any of you have a view(s) on what instrument Besard wanted for > his > > >> Nova Testudo? The other lutes seem pretty clearly to be 9 or 10 > course > > >> instruments a 4th apart. The top lute, to me, looks like he's > assuming > > >> reentrant tuning. I'm tempted to think of Castaldi's tiorbino, but > > >> that seems less likely outside of Italy that early in the 17th c. > > >> Thoughts? > > >> Thanks kindly, > > >> Thomas Walker, Jr. > > >> > > >> -- > > >> > > >> > > >> To get on or off this list see list information at > > >> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > > > > > > > > > > --
