On Wednesday, January 04, 2006 4:25 PM Peter Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm sure that I've seen at least one more illustration of a 9 peg guitar. Do you mean the one illustrated in the last issue of the Spanish Vihuela Society journal and of which Monica have made us aware recently ? It is a very beautiful picture (thanks very much to Monica again for providing me with an image of it!). The depicted guitar has a rather wide body and its fingerboard has 'points' (both these features are in line with the surviving 'Chambure' vihuela). Also worth to mention the presence of maker's stamp on the soundboard extension over the neck and slots (instread of holes) in pegs. > However there is at least one actual instrument - Giovanni Tesler, Ancona, > 1618; Musee Instrumentale, Nice. cat G.1784. Several illustrations in: > Guitares, pub. Flute de Pan, 1980. I believe that the neck has been > shortened and perhaps the bridge replaced. Otherwise it seems very > original. Apart from the 9-peg guitar in the Nice Musee Instrumentale that you mention there are at least two others: one in privite collection in Italy (the image of its peg head is illustrated in my online article "The Royal Colllege Dias - guitar or vihuela?", at http://www.vihuelademano.com/vg-crossroads/LStalk/9-peg.jpg, some other iconographical representations of 9-peg guitars are also illustrated there, see plate3 of http://www.vihuelademano.com/rcmdias.htm). The other guitar is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna (I wonder if the instrument is still there but it is illustrated in J.Schlosser's catalogue "Die Sammlung alter Musikinstrumente"). What we need now is a picture of 11-string vihuela ;') ... or do we really? Happy New Year, Alexander To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
