I wholeheartedly agree, Martyn. Those pictured at the top of this page are of that later ilk, as is the link Alexander provided: http://www.harpguitars.net/history/org/org-form1a.htm
Personally, I like the creator of this page very much, and I certainly appreciate his knowledge and enthusiasm. However, his focus really is on more recent "harp-guitars", and I'm not totally comfortable with imposing so structured an organology on sporadic and often unrelated builds of guitars with sub-bass diapasons wherever they appear in history. Eugene > -----Original Message----- > From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On > Behalf Of Martyn Hodgson > Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 2:09 AM > To: Vihuela Dmth; Monica Hall > Subject: [VIHUELA] PS to ...Re: Guitarre theorbee > > > PS to my last: the significance of this depiction hinges around how > 'late' it is. By the end of the 18thC there was the fashion for > classically inspired guitars with two necks (after Kithara) and theorbo > like extensions; they used overwound basses (as contemporary > guitars). I see these as new inventions rather than development of the > 17thC Gth/Gat and thus telling us nothing about the stringing of the > earlier instruments. > > M > --- On Wed, 22/7/09, Martyn Hodgson <hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > From: Martyn Hodgson <hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk> > Subject: Re: [VIHUELA] Guitarre theorbee > To: "Monica Hall" <mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk> > Date: Wednesday, 22 July, 2009, 7:02 AM > > > Me neither. But I see Donald from time to time so will ask him about it > in due course. > > Martyn > --- On Tue, 21/7/09, Monica Hall <mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: > > From: Monica Hall <mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk> > Subject: [VIHUELA] Guitarre theorbee > To: "Vihuelalist" <vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu> > Date: Tuesday, 21 July, 2009, 10:20 PM > > I see that Donald Gill says that there is a drawing of the neck and > pegbox of a late example of a theorboed guitar in the G. Thibault > collection reproduced in a book by A. Berners "Preservation and > resoration of musical instruments". > Has anyone seen this? It's in the BL but I can't get there this > week. > Martyn? > Monica > __________________________________________________________________ > I am using the Free version of [1]SPAMfighter. > We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. > SPAMfighter has removed 4 of my spam emails to date. > The Professional version does not have this message. > -- > References > 1. [1]http://www.spamfighter.com/len > To get on or off this list see list information at > [2]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- > > References > > 1. http://www.spamfighter.com/len > 2. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
