I'm afraid I haven't been keeping up with all the emails on the list, so forgive me if this question has been answered already.
I see quite a lot of hg makers basing the physical appearance of their hgs on instruments seen in the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch. That's all well and good, but why don't I see any hgs based on the one in the painting "The Triumph of Death" from 1562 by Bruegel the Elder? (AKA Brueghel) Here's a link: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Thetriumphofdeath.jpg The hg in this rather busy picture is in the lower left corner, being played left-handed by the skeleton riding on the cartload of skulls. There isn't a lot of detail in this web picture, but I have a better picture in a book, and I imagine the original is more detailed than the reproduction in my book. I asked this same question a while ago, but I think the discussion got sidetracked into some other topic. Melissa the Loud
