> On Oct 11, 2016, at 4:00 PM, Ron Andrico <praelu...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > HIP is not > necessarily a hard and fast objective measure because whenever the term > is mentioned, you must ask the question, "...according to whom?" > > Speedy O'Dette's use of a mandolino is a serious stretch of > imagination.
When O’Dette (whose first name is Paul, by the way) made the recording, much of the lute world believed that the lute part should sound at violin pitch, requiring a small instrument. It was the latest in HIP. Paul actually concluded that the violin-pitch theory was wrong not long after the recording came out. > Luca's performance incorporated transposition well, no. > and a single-strung archlute but I can tell you without hesitation that > historical theorbos were NOT single-strung either. Someone should have told Praetorius. And Joseph Langenwalder, who made the single-strung theorbo in the Vienna Kunsthistorisches Museum. And Pietro Railich, who made the single-strung theorbos in the Brussels Musee Instrumental and the Rome Museo degli Strumenti Musicale. He also made the double-strung theorbo in the Hessisches Landesmuseum. And the 4 anonymous makers of the single-strung theorbos in the Musei e Gallerie di Milano, Stockholm Musikhistoriska Museet, Oberosterreichisches Landesmuseum and the Burg Seebenstein collection. And Mattheus Buchenberg (Lisbon Museu da Musica, and Brussels Musee Instrumental), Matthias Alban and Magnus Steger (Uneo Gakuen Collection in Tokyo), and Wendelio Venere (Musee de la Musique, Paris) and a few others. There are at least a dozen surviving single-strung theorbos. Given the small size of the theorbo fossil record, that number indicates that single-strung theorbos were common, particularly since players could single-string instruments that had pegs for double stringing. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
