I think he is not really concerned with tying frets. What he is illustrating is Rules of perspective when drawing frets on the fingerboard. He starts off by saying that the distance between the bridge and the nut is divided into 16 parts starting from point E on the drawing. It is not very easy to read. It is from Jose Garcia Hidalgo - Principios para estudiar el nobilisimo y real arte de la pintura printed in Madrid in 1691. This includes other drawings illustrating the rules of perspective. Monica
-----Original Message----- From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of Andreas Schlegel Sent: 01 January 2016 10:01 To: lute list Subject: [LUTE] Hidalgo Fret pattern Dear collected wisdom, I found this in Bob Spencer's collection, now in the Royal Academy of Music, London: https://www.ram.ac.uk/museum/item/20514 http://keimages.ram.ac.uk/emuweb/php5/media.php?irn=16670 Who knows the exact meaning of this engraving? Is there a translation of the text? Thanks a lot! All the best, Andreas Andreas Schlegel Eckstr. 6 CH-5737 Menziken +41 (0)62 771 47 07 lute.cor...@sunrise.ch -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
