Dear lute makers and all, I recently got back from a trip to the east =
coast where I was kindly given permission to draw a couple of lutes. =
One was the Andreas Berr in Boston , but more importantly the Andreas =
Jauck at Yale. Below I describe the Jauck and have a few observations. =
I'm wond
About the Jauck lute in Budapest:
I have a small booklet with photos of some of the instrument of the
Hungarian National Museum. It contains a a photo of a theorba made by
Joannes Jauck. (I can scan and send you the photo if needed.) The short
description in the booklet says the instrument has
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Subject: Re: Jauck lute
About the Jauck lute in Budapest:
I have a small booklet with photos of some of the instrument of the
Hungarian National Museum. It contains a a photo of a theorba made by
Joannes Jauck. (I can scan and send you the photo if needed.) Th
> description in the booklet says the instrument has two inscriptions:
> 1. 'Joannes Jauck me Fecit Graecii Anno 17(38)'
> 2. 'Mattheus Ignatius Bradstetter Reparavit Viennae Anno 1830'
This is fascinating. There is an implication of active use in the evidence
of professional repairs. I'd be curiou
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> > description in the booklet says the instrument has two inscriptions:
> > 1. 'Joannes Jauck me Fecit Gr
> Does this imply that it was originally made by Jauck ? and the later
> label is obviously a repair made in 1830.
> Michael Thames
The implication is that it was STILL USED in 1830.
RT
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>>> description in the booklet says the instrument has two inscriptions:
>>> 1. 'Joannes Jauck me Fecit
This often just dows mean it was converted in something like a guitar!
The label dowsn't say what kind of repair it was.
Thomas
Roman Turovsky schrieb am 03.09.2003:
>> Does this imply that it was originally made by Jauck ? and the
>later
>> label is obviously a repair made in 1830.
>> Michael T
> This often just dows mean it was converted in something like a guitar!
> The label dowsn't say what kind of repair it was.
>
> Thomas
It seems the repairer only MOVED the bridge toward the rose, not a pretty
thing, and strangely the same atrocity that the Brunner lute suffered.
RT
>>> Does thi
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A lot of these "repairs" done in the 19th and 20th centuries are guitar conversions o
f the crudest sort. The makers no longer had knowledge of the lute-making tradition a
nd made arbitrary changes of all kinds. Or sometimes the changes were mad
That's my point.
Andi Schlegel showed to an interested audience at the lute days in
Basel fotos of the restauration process of one of his early lutes
(giorgina - I'm a great fan of this instrument).
you can clearly see what they did to that pour instrument. It was
converted into a guitar. A "supp
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