I thought that was cleared off already. Most of G. Thibault's instruments
(if not all) are in the Paris museum. This particular one is under Inv. No.
E.980.2.296
AB
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martyn Hodgson" <hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk>
To: "Vihuela Dmth" <vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu>; "Monica Hall"
<mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk>
Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 1:36 PM
Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: PS to ...Re: Guitarre theorbee - Berners book(let)
My memory IS going! I DO have Berner's book. My excuse is that I was
thrown off the scent by it being called a book - it's actually a rather
small paperbound booklet...
Pagw 45 has the picture, but I'm afraid it's entitled 'Head of
theorboed guitar, late eighteenth-century - attributed to Cosineau
1780' (G. Thibault collection - Thibault was one of the authors of the
booklet). In short, one of those instruments using overwound strings
and many extant examples some pictured on the Harp-Guitar site
previously mentioned.
The page also has two other depictions of guitars: a four course and a
5 course both taken from Mersenne.
I wouldn't take Berners little work as at all reliable/accurate these
days: even in 1967, when published, we knew that the chitarrone was not
generally strung 'usually with metal', and that Mersenne's depiction
of what he called a theorbe was actually an archlute (as indeed M later
said in an autograph emendation to his own copy) tho' Berners calls it
a theorbo. Similarly, of the 5 course guitar he says the ' lower three
courses double in octaves' ........
Martyn
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