Re: Iconography (was:The Right Hand Revisited)

[Roman Turovsky]

> I think a lot of the Lutes we use today are overly large.  When my Lute was
> built, the first efforts of a friend and myself at doing this, it was
> decided, after looking at a lot of "Iconography", that the Lutes represented
> were quite a bit smaller than those popular today.  This conclusion was
> reached after making measurements of the instruments depicted and comparing
> them to the size of the faces of the people shown playing them.
> Understanding that the human face has a rather average size over all, it was
> decided that the Lutes in these paintings were for the most part in the
> 50cm-55cm range and not what we call average today, being around 60cm.
So you went for a bonsai lute..........................
RT
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