Yes, they do! It is breathtaking. I did take some time looking at the Strad mandolin, as well as the Strad guitar, Sellas guitars, Voboam guitar, etc, etc.
Incredible. ed At 09:07 AM 2/6/2008 -0500, Eugene C. Braig IV wrote: >Marvelous! Thanks for spinning your yarn, Ed. They also hold the 1680 >"Cutler-Challen" mandolino by Stradivari and a number of other interesting >early mandolins. ><http://www.usd.edu/smm/PluckedStrings/Mandolins/StradMandolin/StradMandolin.html> > >At 08:11 AM 2/6/2008, Edward Martin wrote: >>I sent this to the baroque list yesterday, but I re-thought this, and I am >>also sending it to the general lute list (sorry if it offends anyone). >> >>ed >> >>Dear ones, >> >>I have an interesting story. >> >>Dan Larson and I just returned from the National Museum of Music, in South >>Dakota. It was an absolutely fantastic experience. They have many, many >>lutes by Harton, Diefenbrouchar, Sellas, Edlinger. They also have guitars >>by Stradivarius, Sellas and Voboam. Many violins by Stradivarius, Ganeri, >>Amati, etc. It was unbelievable. >> >>The museum let us have full access to the Edlingers! We examined them for >>about 10 hours, and I got to hold them in the playing position, etc. They >>have been examined in the 1970's by Lundberg and others. One is 76 cm >>mensur, the other is 81 or 82 cm, and they were perhaps originally by >>Tieffenbrucker, or perhaps a Bolognese maker. Later, they were converted >>to 13 course baroque lutes by Thomas Edlinger; the longer instrument in >>1724, the shorter one in 1728. The 76 cm is flat back in 11 ribs of bird's >>eye maple, the 82 cm is multi ribbed yew. >> >>What really startled me was the 76 cm lute. It is documented that these >>lutes had been in a Czeck castle for hundreds of years. It appeared to me >>that 2, or 3 different players used this lute. It showed heavy usage, so >>it was more than likely played at a professional level. One player played >>near the bridge, due to smudge & dirt marks from the fingers, as well as >>the thumb. These marks were wide, and seemingly from finger marks. One >>player played close to the rose , and used a long nail, as there are >>multiple thin scrape marks (perhaps hundreds of these marks), from a long >>right hand nail. That player even played in front of the rose, towards the >>neck, on all the diapason courses! It tells me that on this particular >>instrument, there were more than one player using very different >>techniques. As well, they played a technique with the thumb pointed >>towards the rose, as the old paintings show, but _NOT_ by the bridge. >> >>The longer lute in yew showed patterns and evidence of it being played very >>close to the bridge. The little area at the treble end of the bridge was >>worn down from overuse of the pinky being planted there. >> >>It seems that these lutes, although in possession by the same family in the >>same castle, are similar in that they are both Edlinger conversions to 13 >>course baroque lutes with bass riders. They do appear to have had >>dissimilar techniques and player positions, as evidenced by the wear on the >>sound boards, suggesting that the same player did not play the 2 >>instruments, and the shorter one had at least 2 different players. >> >>All in all, in was a humbling experience, to examine these masterpieces, so >>close up, and to hold them in playing position. The marks I mentioned on >>the shorter instrument do not show up well on photography, but are very >>open & obvious to the naked eye. >> >>ed >> >> >> >> >> >>Edward Martin >>2817 East 2nd Street >>Duluth, Minnesota 55812 >>e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>voice: (218) 728-1202 >> >> >> >> >>To get on or off this list see list information at >>http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > >Eugene C. Braig IV >Assistant Director >Ohio Sea Grant College Program, >F.T. Stone Laboratory, CLEAR, and GLAERC >The Ohio State University >Area 100 Research Center >1314 Kinnear Rd. >Columbus, OH 43212 > >Phone: 614-292-8949 >FAX: 614-292-4364 >e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.ohioseagrant.osu.edu/ >http://snr.osu.edu/myhome/braig.1 > > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: >269.19.20/1261 - Release Date: 2/5/2008 8:57 PM Edward Martin 2817 East 2nd Street Duluth, Minnesota 55812 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (218) 728-1202
