Dear David,
thank you!!
The two pictures are finally big enough to be understandable.
I was also curious about the original string lengths, if you happen to
know them.
By the way, if all chitarroni I see in museums had 6 single or double
courses (I think I remember one with seven fretted courses at the Cité
del la Musique in Paris, but I'm not sure thou), WHY ON EARTH do I see
almost all chitarroni with 8x1 fretted strings??
All the best,
Luca (who really doesn't want to start ANY flame on this subject...)
---- Attivato sab, 17 ago 2019 20:21:21 +0200 David Van Edwards
<da...@vanedwards.co.uk> ha scritto ----
Dear Luca,
I forgot to add: is there any other info you'd like? I have a few
more photos. It is indeed on display in Rome at the Museo Nazionale
degli Strumenti Musicali, and the catalogue number is 976. Luisa
Cervelli: La Galleria Armonica, Catalogo del Museo degli strumenti
musicali di Roma, Roma 1994, pp. 297-299 from where I got my photos.
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
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