At 12:42 PM 9/20/2006, Stephen Fryer wrote: >Craig Allen wrote: > > > A friend sent me a link to this enggraving by Meckenem the Younger. > > > > http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=24901 > > >The broken lute at his feet is interesting for its details of interior >construction. I have a feeling that either the artist had never >actually seen the interior construction, or 15th century lutes were >built much differently than 16th-century ones.
I suspect that is actually a case and not a broken lute at all. Have a look at the pegbox-shaped box where a pegbox should be. Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
