Romans go to the house ? ? ? Ron Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oops, its been too long since I took latin...that should read "Tarquinius Superbus." Had to correct it for fear my old latin teacher might surface to reenact the latin graffiti lesson from The Life of Brian (Romani ite domum...)
Ron > -----Original Message----- > From: Ron Banks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 9:51 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] > Subject: [CITTERN] Re: Wanted: piece of mind! > > Frank, > > Here's a direct link to the KHM Vienna's page for the > instrument (dated 1574 by Girolamo da Virchi): > > http://www.khm.at/homeE2066.html > > Sadly, it's one of the few instruments in their collection > without a technical drawing for sale. The corpus of that > instrument is simply gorgeous. Its famous peghead carving is > supposed to represent the Lucrece's suicide after her rape by > Tarquinus Superbus in 509 BC. > > Take care, > Ron Banks > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Andrew Hartig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 5:42 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] > > Subject: [CITTERN] Re: Wanted: piece of mind! > > > > > > I'm mostly certain that it is the Girolamo Virchi > instrument in the > > Kunsthistorisches Museum. > > http://cittern.theaterofmusic.com/old/ferd.html > > > > The "Strad" I believe is almost certainly also originally by > > Virchi. For detailed information, see the article by > Jo=EBl Dugot > > and Florence Getreau in the Kloster Michaelstein book > (details > > here: http://cittern.theaterofmusic.com/articles/index.html), > > "Citterns in French Public Collections. Instruments and musical > > iconography." (There is a somewhat corrupt copy of the same > > article available here: > > http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/view_by_stamp.php?label=I > RPMF&action_to> > do=view&langue=en&id=halshs-00009495&version=1, > > or follow the link from my articles page, above). > > > > Best, > > -Andrew > > > > > > At 03:27 PM 10/5/2007, Frank Nordberg wrote: > > >Just wondering if anybody here could help me out with this. > > > > > >I got this picture of a renaissance cittern from somebody: > > >http://www.musicaviva.com/renaissance-cittern.jpg > > >and it's driving me absolutely crazy! I *know* I've seen > the picture > > >many times before but I just can't place it and I just can't > > remember > > >exactly which cittern it is. Thought it was the 1700 > > Stradivarius but > > >no. Very similar but not the same. > > >So, anbody please tell me what instrument this is so I can finally > > >sleep at night again! > > > > > > > > >Frank Nordberg > > >http://www.musicaviva.com > > >http://www.tablatvre.com > > > > > > > > > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at > > >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > > > > > > --
