In the video, Sven tells the kid that it is a lute built in 1727. Mathias
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] Im Auftrag von Luca Manassero Gesendet: Montag, 12. Februar 2018 19:07 An: baroque-lute Betreff: [BAROQUE-LUTE] Johann Christian Hoffman n, 14 course swan-neck lute in Leipzing Dear common wisdom, a couple of years ago I stumbled upon the Leipzig Museum website, planned to visit their Hoffman exhibition (but had to pass on it, unfortunately) - then one day realized that the pictured Hoffmann swan-neck lute they recently acquired (2012, says the YouTube video) mounts 14 courses: 8 fretted and 6 at the second pegbox (2x1, 6x2, 6x2). See [1]http://mfm.uni-leipzig.de/dt/Forschung/hoffmannn.php: it's the first instrument pictured under Johann Christian Hoffmann' section on the page. It's a really strange instrument with an incredibly deep body (it must be uneasy to hold, or at least it looks so). I'm sure the book about Hoffmann they sell ([2]http://www.hofmeister-musikverlag.com/martin-und-johann-christian-h offmann.html) has all the measures about that instrument, but that book is really kind of expensive. The Museum's website doesn't talk about string length and date on this lute (I do read German and couldn't find the infos anywhere on the website) The YouTube video on the same page shows a German lutenist (Sven Schwannberger, I think) playing a swan-neck lute, which is of course not the original Hoffmann lute, as it shows 13 courses, as usual. Anybody out there who has more details about it? Thanks a lot, Luca -- References 1. http://mfm.uni-leipzig.de/dt/Forschung/hoffmannn.php 2. http://www.hofmeister-musikverlag.com/martin-und-johann-christian-hoffmann.h tml To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
