On May 9, 2009, at 4:07 PM, Martin Eastwell wrote: > If I remember correctly, Holbein in "The Ambassadors" painted a broken > string on the octave of the 4th course. One would naturally tend to > depict > course one as broken, but of course the octave on the 4th course is > only a > tone below course one. I assume Holbein was showing off his musical > knowledge, alongside the symbolism of broken strings.
So, uh...what is the symbolism of broken strings? David Rastall dlu...@verizon.net -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
