----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Durbrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "lute list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 17. november 2003 14:13 Subject: Re: The Right Hand Revisited
| >is there any site with a description of the | >several right hand techniques? | | | I recommend: http://www.xs4all.nl/~amarin/Page1.html Alfonso | Marin's collection of lute related pictures. A picture is worth a | thousand words. | | cheers, | -- | Ed Durbrow | Saitama, Japan | http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ Yes indeed, Ed that's why I downloaded Alfonso's collection, although it took ages on my old messerschmidt PC. (It's an old Siemens =]) What a good idea and fine collection Alfonso! Together with the pictures McFeely's posted, it's excellent reference. I was captivated by Bartolomeo Passarotti's 1576 painting. (Pic. 29 in the collection) It says anno iubilei bon 1576. There is also some music there in the background, and the lute looks like an ~60 cm. mensur instrument. There's some unreadable text in the upper left corner. The guy seems to be playing his "magna chorda" 6-3-5-0-4-2-3-4-2-1-1-0 Any more info about this painting? I thought I had a theory about all those impossible stretches you sometimes encounter in the 1500's repertoire, that perhaps those old masters played on "small lutes", what we today would call A-lutes, and that is why we have such difficulties with doing justice to their music on today's 60 cm. + lutes? (For this type of music, when I downtune a guitar, and put a capo on the 4th fret, #F tuning, the mensur is ~ 52 cm.) This painting does however not support my theory (do any?) Best Regards G�ran PS. Wish I had a teeny-weeny 6 or 7 course A-lute! Anyone who has experienced one?
