I have a fun explanation - her earlier string broke, and she had to use a string taken from a harpist… and the only spare string the harpist had was one of the red-coloured ones.
Edward C. Yong edward.y...@gmail.com > On 29 May 2016, at 2:16 am, Valery SAUVAGE <sauvag...@orange.fr> wrote: > > If you look at "l'homme au luth" (Rubens ? Troyes museum St Loup) > > you can see some strings are red too, and not only basses... (but I > have no asnwer about it, copper loading is understandable for bass > strings but treble ?) > > http://lavie-enchampagne.com/pdf/numero75/numero75.pdf > > (perhaps you can find a better photo of the painting ?) > > ValA(c)ry > > > > > > >> Message du 28/05/16 16:46 >> De : "Sean Smith" <lutesm...@gmail.com> >> A : "lute list" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> >> Copie A : >> Objet : [LUTE] Red string >> >> >> Good morning all, >> >> I was impressed this painting: >> > http://www.fondationcustodia.fr/ununiversintime/1_meester_van_de_jar > en_veertig_4494.cfm >> >> I appreciate that the artist was very attentive so I started > zooming around with the magnifier. I noticed that while the spacing > is unrealistic the top string was red. I hadn't heard about this > from our modern string revivalists so I'm curious. What do you think > it might be? >> >> Sean >> >> >> >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >> > > -- >
