Thank you Lex - I don't think this was where I saw it: I vaguely recall
the pic I saw was a black and white photo. On Mimmo's site one can see
part of the pattern but, maddingly, not all....
Martyn
--- On Thu, 23/7/09, Lex Eisenhardt <eisenha...@planet.nl> wrote:
From: Lex Eisenhardt <eisenha...@planet.nl>
Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Guitarre theorbe
To: "Vihuelalist" <vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Date: Thursday, 23 July, 2009, 11:27 AM
You've probably all seen this picture on Mimmo's site?
[1]http://www.aquilacorde.com/catalogo12.htm
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martyn Hodgson" <[2]hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk>
To: "Vihuelalist" <[3]vihu...@cs.dartmouth.edu>; "Monica Hall"
<[4]mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk>
Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 11:00 AM
Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Guitarre theorbe
>
>
> Again my memory fails, since I think I've seen a paper (about 5
years
> ago?) with this pattern in it. But all I can lay my hands on at the
> moment is Sacconi's work of 1979 ' I "SEGRETI" DI STRADIVARI' in
which
> he describes all the relics contained in the Civic Museum Cremona.
Of
> course, these were handed on through Strad's sons who themselves
wrote
> some of the docs and may even have drawn some patterns.
>
> Item 375 is listed as:
>
> 'Pattern in paper of neck and fingerboard 320mm long by 72mm and
60mm
> in width(?),with a description of the strings and their arrangement
at
> the nut'. On this in the hand of the sons of Strad is written
"Misura
> della Longezza del manico della Chitara Tiorbata" and the well
known
> stringing description [starting "Questa deve essere compani due
> cantini di Chitara ....." and ending "..... un cantino da
violino"]
> where some violin strings are to be used for the guitar (hence how
we
> can estimate the guages and tensions - see FoMRHI Comm 663, October
> 1985) but, sadly, only for the fingerboard strings!
>
> MH
>
> --- On Thu, 23/7/09, Monica Hall <[5]mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>
> From: Monica Hall <[6]mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk>
> Subject: [VIHUELA] Guitarre theorbe
> To: "Vihuelalist" <[7]vihu...@cs.dartmouth.edu>
> Date: Thursday, 23 July, 2009, 7:28 AM
>
> I have one more question - about the drawing of a chitarra
atiorbata
> in
> the Stradivarius Museum.
> According to the sources I have consulted this shows the head
and
> neck
> of the instrument, but not the body.
> Is that correct?
> Monica
>
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