If you read the introduction and inventory, there is a helpful passage
that says, Invert the book.
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Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2015 23:33:41 -0700
To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
From: howardpos...@ca.rr.com
Subject: [LUTE] Pickledherring Lute Book Upside-down pages
I should
Unfortunately I can help in this instance but from my experience as a
librarian and a consummer it is not uncommon for books to be misprinted or
misbound either today or in the past!
Best wishes to all.
Monica
- Original Message -
From: Ron Andrico praelu...@hotmail.com
To: John
I have known this, and it seems as though the inversion is in the
original manuscript. In the page immediately before the inversion,
there is a paragraph explaining the foliation of the book was done in
the year 1868. It seems to me that the old Boethius editions were so
well
I should have actually looked at my copy of Jane Pickledherring’s Lute Book
before I responded tp your last post, but I had to move what interior designers
refer to as “a whole bunch of stuff” to get to it. I’ve moved the whole bunch
of stuff after reading:
On Jul 5, 2015, at 7:53 PM, John
That's just silly, Howard. The inversion was a desperate device to prevent
thumb-under players from becoming thumb-over players. They saw the handwriting
on the wall and were willing to try anything at that point.
On Jul 6, 2015, at 8:15 AM, howard posner wrote:
On Jul 6, 2015, at 3:05 AM,
On Jul 6, 2015, at 3:05 AM, Ron Andrico praelu...@hotmail.com wrote:
If you read the introduction and inventory, there is a helpful passage
The same instructions are printed on the pages themselves, to prevent readers
from playing the music standing on their heads.
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