> On Dec 11, 2017, at 12:16 PM, Matthew Daillie <dail...@club-internet.fr> > wrote: > > That definitely appears to be the case. A shame indeed as it must have been a > splendid instrument. > > Best, > Matthew > > On 11/12/2017 21:09, Martin Shepherd wrote: >> OK so we could be looking at a "normal" Italian theorbo (6x2, 8x1) which has >> been mangled into something else. What a shame.
And yet someone wanted to alter an expensive, splendid instrument in just that way, spending money that might have been spent on a courtesan or a cornetto. Maybe that person had an actual reason, and we might learn something by considering what it might have been. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
