Vance Wood wrote: > So the question is: Why do some paintings depict this method of > playing? Is it perhaps possible that we place too much credence on the > accuracy of paintings in determining some of the finer points about > the Lute > and the way it was played?
It's not just paintings. I believe there are surviving instruments with wear marks at or behind the bridge. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
