----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard Posner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Roger E. Blumberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "bill kilpatrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "LUTE-LIST" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 11:01 AM Subject: Re: gittern lute sighting c.1375 -- obscure fresco, Italian,private dealer sale
> Roger E. Blumberg wrote: > > > And the more you mention it; even their > > spacing is suspect. i.e. on such a short scale instrument the frets would be > > much closer together that high up. So I don't know what the deal is. > > > The deal is probably that the artist didn't care about fret spacing and paid > no attention. He wasn't illustrating a book about gitterns. ya, let's hope, that it's just carelessness, and not a red flag signaling a fake (or something) i.e. seems like it should be a pretty important picture (for purposes of 14th cent. lute iconography) all things considered. One has to wonder what else is out there in private hands that's never seen the light of day. This picture is categorized as "Pretty couple playing chess" (or something to that effect). No mention of the lute or musical instrument of any kind in the description, so one literally has to accidentally stumble upon it (as I did). i.e. normal or ideal search terms would never retrieve this image. Roger > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
