Dear Luca, Here you are! A very nice looking theorbo. Pohlmann says date is 1655 and Toffolo says it's c.1640 (St. Toffolo: Antichi Strumenti Veneziani. Venezia 1987, pp. 57, 221) who knows where the 1702 date comes from in the LSA list, but as there's no label it's all a guess.
Best wishes, David At 18:34 +0200 17/8/19, Luca Manassero wrote: > Dear common wisdom, > seven years ago I had the opportunity to buy a theorbo from a German > friend: it had been built by Hendrik Hasenfuss in 1993 and has a very > nice bowl made of 35 ribs of yew. > Looking for the model, I think I came to a theorbo built by Pietro > Raillich in Padova, possibly around 1655 (strung as 6x1, 8x2). The > original seems to be on display in Rome at the Museo Nazionale degli > Strumenti Musicali, where it is (erroneously?) indicated as being built > in 1702, which sounds odd to me, as of the nearly 47 years Pietro > Raillich spent in Padova, that is the year of his death... > The only picture displayed on Museum's site is so small to be almost > unreadable. > Does anybody have readable pictures of the 1655 instrument and/or some > more infos? Mine measures 82.5cm and 167cm, which would match the > Raillich's model. > Thank you in advance, > Luca > > -- > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- The Smokehouse, 6 Whitwell Road, Norwich, NR1 4HB England. Telephone: + 44 (0)1603 629899 Website: http://www.vanedwards.co.uk --
