About the Jauck lute in Budapest: I have a small booklet with photos of some of the instrument of the Hungarian National Museum. It contains a a photo of a theorba made by Joannes Jauck. (I can scan and send you the photo if needed.) The short description in the booklet says the instrument has two inscriptions: 1. 'Joannes Jauck me Fecit Graecii Anno 17(38)' 2. 'Mattheus Ignatius Bradstetter Reparavit Viennae Anno 1830'
So it seems to me this is another Jauck, Joannes not Andreas, from a later period, working in Graz, Austria. (Still I have to check it with the museum if possible as there are no reference numbers with the instruments in my booklet.) I will try to inquire in the National Museum in case you want me to. Best regards: Gábor Domján ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Thames <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 11:08 PM Subject: Jauck lute > Dear lute makers and all, I recently got back from a trip to the east = > coast where I was kindly given permission to draw a couple of lutes. = > One was the Andreas Berr in Boston , but more importantly the Andreas = > Jauck at Yale. Below I describe the Jauck and have a few observations. = > I'm wondering if anyone has seen other Jauck's=20 > 1) Budapest National Museum of Hungary No. 1951.45 > 2) Brussels Musee Instrumental No. 251 > 3) Vienna KHM No. GDM 61 > > and if the conversion sounds similar, or just any thoughts on this. > > > The body of the Jauck is a 37-ribbed yew wood lute. Andy Rutherford = > says in his notes He thinks it to be a 1600 to 1640 Italian lute . = > However the curator told me Ray Nurse thinks it is French only because = > of the style of the points which are very strange, as they extended way = > down into the body. I think it is Italian as I haven't heard of any = > leading French lute makers from this period,( I'm not a historian and = > actually have little to go on about that) and most likely the points = > were done at the time of the conversion. The last two ribs were planned = > down almost to the next rib in the conversion. The top had a pronounced = > arch across the grain, which was most defiantly a design of Jauck, as it = > doesn't appear to be from humidity as the ribs were planed to take the = > arch. The end clasp was almost non-existent, and my feeling is that some = > of it was planned off in the conversion. There was also a large bulge = > where the ribs curve into the end clasp, and I really wonder how this = > could happen? I saw this to a lot lesser degree in the Berr lute that I = > drew at the Boston museum of fine arts, Also this appears in the plans = > by Lunberg of the Frei. If anyone has any thoughts about this I would = > love to hear them. I don't know but speculate that perhaps during the = > conversion the area of the end clasp was pulled in therefore creating = > the bulge? It seems that all conversion lutes that I've seen personally = > and of plans I've seen have this problem bulge. And again I'm not an = > expert in this, but at the same time it seems crazy that the original = > maker would have done this and also seems unlikely that humidity could = > cause this either.=20 > > I'm not sure how to proceed to draw up the plans, as I have no = > interest to copy exactly the body with so many alterations from the = > original. I am working with a friend of mine from a national lab to = > recreate the original body shape on a computer, and as I said, the ribs = > were planned down and that would change the shape of the top as well. = > The bridge seemed to be original, as I could see no evidence of it being = > moved, but for that matter the whole top with the bridge could have been = > used from an existing lute? I didn't bother to copy much of bridge as a = > new piece was screwed on to the top of the original bridge using three = > small screws and was unusually high, and not very appealing. I am = > thinking of drawing up both plans one of the original and one of a = > working model with a computer recreation of the original. If anyone has = > any thoughts about this I would love to hear from you. A few photos are = > included. > > Thanks, > > =20 > > =20 > > Michael Thames > Luthier > www.ThamesClassicalGuitars.com > > -- >
