And here is the sad tune the king plays on his 3 course 3 fretted lute:
| 2.3 1 2.3 1 2.3 1 1 2.3 1 2.3 1 1 2
|_c_a_c_d_c_d_a___a_d___c_a_a___c__
|___d_|_|___d_|___a___|_d_c_d_a_|___d_c___|___a___a___|___a___a|
|_|_|_|___|_|_|_d___a_|__a___d___a_|
|_|___a_|_|___|_|_|___||
|_c___|_|_a_b_|_c___a_|_|_a___|_c_|c___|
|_|_a___|_|___|_d___|_|___||
|
|
|(hammer)
| 2.3 1 2.3 1 2.3 1 1 2.3 1 2. 3 1 1 2
|_c_a_c#d_c_d_a___a_f___d_ca_d___c__
|___d_|_|___d_|___|_d_c_d_a_|(c_d_f)_d_|___a___a___|___a___a|
|_|_|_|___|_|__|_d___a_|__a___d___a_|
|_|___a_|_|_a_|_|__|___||
|_c___|_|_a___|_e_|_|_a|_c_|c___|
|_|_a___|_|___|_d___|__|___||
G.
- Original Message -
From: Christopher Stetson cstet...@email.smith.edu
To: lute-cs.dartmouth.edu lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 12:53 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Les Luths Desperaux.
Hello, all,
I just returned from viewing The Tale of Desperaux with my 9-year-old son,
and can clear up some of the previous questions and speculations regarding
the lute that the king plays.
In the film, the lute appears three times, the shortest being about 10
seconds, the longest perhaps 45, on and off.
It does have six strings and six tuning pegs, a carved rose, and what looks
like a tie-on bridge with carved ears much like an early 19th. c. guitar.
There are three (!) low, apparently wooden frets, widely spaced, and glued
or tacked onto the rather long neck. Perhaps the Kingdom of Dore uses a
roughly equal-spaced quadrotonic scale, but the music he plays on it is
distinctively of a diatonic, if not chromatic, tinge. Further, his
fingering seems to have little to do with either the placement of the frets
or the music that his instrument produces.
I just wish I could be around in a few hundred years when someone
reconstructs it.
Best to all, and a happy new year.
Chris.
To get on or off this list see list information at
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
