Roger E. Blumberg wrote: > > sorry, I forgot to answer this. If you're meaning this picture . . > http://www.thecipher.com/viol-guitar_baroque_clr.jpg . . . it came from a CD > cover, Monteverdi, and was not credited in the liner notes (at least I > couldn't find it). I've since sold the CD. I just took a quick look on > Amazon but I couldn't find it there. > > You could be right about it being an Opharion. The frets that are visible > seem to be straight perpendicular, but who knows. I'll make a note of it on > the page though, thanks. > > Here's a larger sample of the original context scene -- if it'll help you > track it down. I left it big, 160k. > http://www.thecipher.com/guitar-or-opharion.jpg
Hi Roger, Thanks very much for placing the whole picture. That's the trouble with CD covers sometimes that the pictures are not credited. I have a similar case with one of Bartolomeo Bettera's paintings to track down ... so far without luck ... I know what you mean about "straight perpendicular" frets on the instrument depicted, but it does seem that they were not always arranged in a fan-like manner. There is a painting in Louvre (attributed to Frans II, le Jeune, c.1581 - 1642) which shows what looks like an orpharion with parallel frets (and bridge and nut for that matter). Here is a fragment of that painting: www.vihuelademano.com/current/pages/orpharion.htm Alexander To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
