On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 10:31:33 +0200, David Morales wrote > A few months ago, John Griffiths shared with us a project that was > brewing in Trujillo (Caceres, Spain) ... The idea was so simple > that it seems crazy to us: students technology institute > "Francisco Orellana" were engaged in the construction of nine > vihuelas, with no previous knowledge of lutherie, without having > previously known the instrument and barely have materials and > tools for a work of such magnitude ...
Maye I miss something utterly obvious (I can't read spanish, so the link doesn't really provide too much inforamtion for me), but what is the point of such an experiment? >From what I get, they used some late 15th century paintig as a modell, but where did the (rather important) rest come from? John Griffiths? The neck/fingerboard/top joint doesn't look like anything I've seen in early (i.e. pre 1500) viola/vihuela iconography. But thank's for posting this link. It would be nice to learn a bit more about the rationale behind the project. Cheers, RalfD To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
