Dear Andreas,
On your Hidalgo question, as people have been pointing out it is a
treatise on perspective not on fretting. So he even has the division
of the stringlength wrong for fretting purposes. He says divide the
stringlength into 16 parts whereas the the nearest whole number
approximation is 18 parts. Good enough for an artist to give the
right impression of fretting divisions though. But it is interesting
that this [wrong] version of the eighteenth rule was current in Spain
so early. The fact that some of the lutes shown have 11 frets to the
neck also shows he wasn't quite up to speed on the musical side of
the matter.
Best wishes,
David
At 14:01 +0000 1/1/16, M Hall wrote:
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
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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
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