I think you are speaking of the lute player, in Troyes (France) Beaux-arts museum, with uncertain attribution to Rubens. I saw many times the original and some strings are red on the painting (the original is more than human size... beautiful picture of course) I remember it is a ten course lute. (and the player wearing a sword, not very comfortable to play lute...) Next time I go to Troyes I'll have a close look to the strings...
You have some more infos here and clicking on "vue complete" you can see on the zoom the red strings... <http://www.ville-troyes.fr/scripts/musees/publigen/content/templates/show.a sp?P=346&L=FR&SYNC=Y> If cut, paste the ling between the two <> V. -----Message d'origine----- De : howard posner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : mardi 3 juin 2008 16:32 À : Lute Objet : [LUTE] Re: Double headed 12c/loaded/Demi-filé On Jun 3, 2008, at 6:24 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the lute > player on the cover of Hoppy's 'Vieux Gaultier' CD > (who's the artist?) plays an instument with the first > and second courses red but also the BASS string only > of the 7th course. All the other ones are pale. > Why? Maybe as a visual cue, the way harpists color their C and F strings today... -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
