I've little knowledge of period dress or of painting styles but from the
little I do know this painting looks to be early 16thC(?) - 150 years before
the gallichon was invented. But others will no doubt know better than me.
In any event, not a gallichon
MH
"G. Crona" <[EMAIL PR
The 8 strings seem to lie rather close and could be single? The neck looks
unnaturally long, as do the fretwidth. Could this instrument work, or does it
scream "a figment of the artist's imagination"?
G.
- Original Message -
From: Martyn Hodgson
To: G. Crona ; Lute@cs.dartmouth.e
Not a gallichon of the type invented c. 1670 in Moravia/Bohemia.
More like a vihuela
MH
"G. Crona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Some years back, I watched a concert by "Il Giardino Armonico", where they
played in a castle in Austria somewhere. In one sequence, the following
image ap
G. Crona wrote:
Some years back, I watched a concert by "Il Giardino Armonico", where
they played in a castle in Austria somewhere. In one sequence, the
following image appeared:
http://tinyurl.com/ywuhgj
I asked if this instrument would possibly qualify as an example of a
Gallichon, but nev
