At 05:27 PM 9/20/2006, Leonard Williams wrote: > > 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 believe this is a lute case. There are other later pictures of >cases like this (sorry, I don't have specifics), with the lid hinged about >where the bridge would be on a lute.
Here's one from ca. 1680 for something similar to lutes: <http://www.usd.edu/smm/PluckedStrings/Mandolins/StradMandolin/StradMandolin.html> Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
