Dear Luca,
I forgot to add: is there any other info you'd like? I have a few
more photos. It is indeed on display in Rome at the Museo Nazionale
degli Strumenti Musicali, and the catalogue number is 976. Luisa
Cervelli: La Galleria Armonica, Catalogo del Museo degli strumenti
musicali di Roma, Roma 1994, pp. 297-299 from where I got my photos.
Best wishes,
David
At 18:34 +0200 17/8/19, Luca Manassero wrote:
Dear common wisdom,
seven years ago I had the opportunity to buy a theorbo from a German
friend: it had been built by Hendrik Hasenfuss in 1993 and has a very
nice bowl made of 35 ribs of yew.
Looking for the model, I think I came to a theorbo built by Pietro
Raillich in Padova, possibly around 1655 (strung as 6x1, 8x2). The
original seems to be on display in Rome at the Museo Nazionale degli
Strumenti Musicali, where it is (erroneously?) indicated as being built
in 1702, which sounds odd to me, as of the nearly 47 years Pietro
Raillich spent in Padova, that is the year of his death...
The only picture displayed on Museum's site is so small to be almost
unreadable.
Does anybody have readable pictures of the 1655 instrument and/or some
more infos? Mine measures 82.5cm and 167cm, which would match the
Raillich's model.
Thank you in advance,
Luca
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