> > Swan-necks on angeliques predate the > > purported/alleged "invention" by some > > 50 years.
The oldest two out of those four angeliques in Schwerin date from 1704 (both made by Tielke). One angelique in Munich is a former lute, dated from 1633. (According to Pohlmann 1982, p. 596-7) > The angelique is essentially a converted _theorbo_, > not a lute. Facing vibrating string lengths of 53 cm (Leipzig), 54 cm (Brussels), 64 cm (Munich), and ca 70 cm (four instruments in Schwerin, one in Prague), that seems improbable. If at all, angeliques were converted lutes, not theorbos. Only one out of survivng eight angeliques appears to be a converted lute, however. Seven others were built as angeliques. That might suggest that the angelique was an instrument of its own right, not a result of conversions. > In this case, the theorboed extension was > already there and the "swan-necking" was merely a > characteristically French architechtural flourish of > an existing product. I may be wrong, but I was under the impression that swan necks are characterically German. -- Best, Mathias http://mathiasroesel.livejournal.com http://www.myspace.com/mathiasroesel http://de.geocities.com/mathiasroesel -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
