Eugene, Sorry I mis read the link to the NMM, in SD, as saying there was a Stadivari guitar in Cremona. Must have been the jet lag, last night. Michael Thames www.ThamesClassicalGuitars.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "EUGENE BRAIG IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael Thames" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Lute net" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 3:03 AM Subject: Re: Stradivari lute?
> ----- Original Message ----- > From: Michael Thames <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Monday, May 23, 2005 0:20 am > Subject: Re: Stradivari lute? > > > That's news to me, that there are 2 surviving guitars by > > Stradivari. I > > know of the well known one with the longer than usual string length. > > > Clocking a whopping 74 cm scale, that one is the "Hill" guitar in the Ashmolean, England. The other is the "Rawlins" guitar of a more manageable ca. 64 cm scale, again in the National Music Museum, SD. > <http://www.usd.edu/smm/rawlins5.html> > > Best, > Eugene > > To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
