> On Aug 18, 2019, at 2:06 PM, David Van Edwards <da...@vanedwards.co.uk> wrote: > > The Tielke is a bizarre German baroque swan neck > style job with an extremely long neck probably > the result of a conversion by Bachmann in 1760. > > The Tieffenbrucker is another swan neck > instrument resulting from a conversion possibly > by Fux though 1696 is a bit early unless it was > then intended as an angelique.Neither are what we > would nowadays call a theorbo, though of course > the term was in use then for such instuments.
And with fingerboard lengths in the eighties, they would have to have been strung and used as theorbos by the players who probably called them theorbos. It seems we’re having a discussion about nomenclature rather than organology. But that’s cool, and it’s always fun to push a button and call up the encyclopedia of instruments you carry around in your head. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
