No, you wouldn't.
RT
> I'd really like to hear what an art critic would say. It seems
> amazing to me that someone who could paint faces and other detail so
> well could utterly screw up a lute.
>
> I notice the fellow is playing off of the right side of his fingers too.
>
>
> On Nov 6, 2005, at 2:43 AM, David Van Edwards wrote:
>
>>
>> The picture is an anonymous French School painting in Hamburg
>> Kunsthalle and was featured on the front cover of Early Music
>> magazine in October 1982. The whole picture makes it clear that it's
>> mostly a perspective problem, since the bridge also is on at an
>> impossible [and opposite] angle.
>>
>> The rose is set grossly to one side as well. But the whole painting
>> is magnificent and gives very much the spirit of the instrument,
>> which looks like a converted Italian yew-wood lute with a French
>> style silver lace round the edge.
>>
>> It may well be that the player did have his frets on at various
>> angles as many players do today to adjust intonation.
>>
>> What is noticeable from the whole painting is that the player has his
>> little finger resting BEHIND the bridge in a postion where lots of
>> surviving museum instruments have wear marks. Thus he is playing very
>> close to the bridge. This may have influenced Bob's choice of
>> picture, since he has been talking a lot of late about the evidence
>> of playing close to the bridge. But from the CD section one can't
>> tell this of course!
>>
>> The red strings are interesting and are not that illogical since they
>> are on the bass side of each course from the fifth downwards. A
>> perfect example of loaded strings and very bright red.
>>
>> In case anyone is interested in seeing the whole painting I'll put it
>> up on my site at http://www.vanedwards.co.uk/hamburg.htm
>
> Ed Durbrow
> Saitama, Japan
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