A potted lute, now that's an idea.......
RT
______________
Roman M. Turovsky
http://turovsky.org
http://polyhymnion.org
> Roman wrote: So you went for a bonsai lute..........................
>
> Leave it to you to have nothing good to say to, or about, anyone. We went
> for what we perceived as an accurate portrayal of some of the Lutes being
> played. Incidentally bonsai is a tree in a pot.
>
> Vance Wood.
>>> 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
>> ______________
>> Roman M. Turovsky
>> http://turovsky.org
>> http://polyhymnion.org
>>
