This one is still in storage. Stuart described a French one. RT ______________ Roman M. Turovsky http://polyhymnion.org/swv > Last I knew, the English guitar in question was not on the floor, but in > the archived collection. Did you go "behind the scenes" while at the Met > or is the piece now on the display floor? > > The piece to which I was referring has a tortoise fingerboard edged in > engraved mother of pearl with a floral motif, lute-like tuning pegs set in > a sickle-shaped pegbox that terminates in a finial decorated like the > fingerboard, a bowl shaped back of gloriously figured maple in excellent > condition, and an ornate, elevated, almost harpsichord-like rose gilded in > gold. Other than the lute-like back and odd rose, the instrument was a > stereotypical English guitar complete with that freaky, 10-string/6-course > configuration and the typical holes through the neck for the screw-on > capotasto. > > Best, > Eugene > > > At 05:48 PM 9/20/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I went to the Met and saw this instrument - I think we?re talking about >> the same one. I tried to take a picture but, without flash (which is >> forbidden), it was impossible. I made notes - and have mislaid them! >> >> I thought the instrument might be what J. Carpentier, writing in the >> 1770s, calls a ?cythre en luth?. Cythres were normally wire-strung, with >> the top four doubled but Carpentier mentions gut-strung, lute-shaped ones >> too. These French instruments were normally tuned in A rather than C and >> so have longer string length than an 'English guitar'. > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
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