Not to do with the frets, but it appears that this five-course lute is
strung in octaves on 3, 4 and 5, though 3 is questionable (perhaps a very
false string!).
Leonard Williams
On 9/14/15, 10:15 AM, "Martin Shepherd" wrote:
> Dear Collective Wisdom,
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> Can anyone help me out with the
What bothers me is the left hand of the guy on the right. Ugh! This was
how many centuries before thalidomide? Oh, it is a painting, not a
photograph.
A. John Mardinly, Ph.D., P.E.
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On 2015-09-14 11:33 AM, Martin Shepherd wrote:
I don't think those are frets, as their lengths make no sense. I can
only think they must be marks to show the positions of notes.
I'd agree with you there. The artist went to great pains to show that
the rose is three-dimensional, so I doubt he
Martin-
I knew you had to be familiar with that painting. I've also wondered
about the frets stopping at the 11 semitone, and the weirdness of that
possibly "semi-diatonic" short fret. In this on-line reproduction they
sure don't look like ebony, or even black- but they still look more like
r
The other problem with the black "frets" on the Costa painting is they
can't be ebony, can they? Not sure when people in Italy would first
have had access to ebony.
M
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Yes, Dan, I do know the painting. I don't think those are frets, as their
lengths make no sense. I can only think they must be marks to show the
positions of notes.
M
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From: "Dan Winheld"
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Really? No iconography?
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Surely you've seen this painting by Lorenzo Costa; 5 course lute with
three ebony frets beyond the gut frets. About 100 years before Mathia
Mason. But, like 7 c
Hi Lucas,
The books you are looking for is Paolo Cherici's JSBACH opere complete
per liuto and Schule fur die Barocklaute by FJ Giesbert. There is also
a dissertation on this MS by Robert Grossman.
I was unsuccessful in finding a digital copy of the Leipzig MS myself
when I
Hello, friends,
Would someone be able to direct me to a digital copy of the facsimile
of BWV 995 (suite in g minor)? It's the Leipzig lute tablature ms. I'm
looking for.
Many thanks!
- Lucas
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Dear Collective Wisdom,
Can anyone help me out with the source materials on this topic? There
is (as far as I know) no evidence for wooden body frets in iconography,
and it seems they were not used until late in the 16th century (they
are mentioned by Dowland, who says they were
Dear collected wisdom
Has somebody this source and could I get a copy of it?
Thanks a lot for any support!
Andreas
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