There is a 14 fret Schelle in Budapest. RT ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dale Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "baroque lute list" <[email protected]>; "Ed Durbrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "peter rauscher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 12:24 PM Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Pesne
> Okay, > If you're going to make the reach easier, one would have the string > spacing compressed > toward the hand edge of the fingerboard not <away > from > it. Just me? > Thirteen equally spaced frets on the neck, abnormal, at least for 18th > century west & central european terrestrial lute.(don't want to step on > anyone's toes here. Might be "the thing" for "air lute") > Dale > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "peter rauscher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "baroque lute list" <[email protected]>; "Ed Durbrow" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Dale Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 4:38 AM > Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Pesne > > >> Dear List, >> I think on the painting there is a real lute played by the beautiful >> lady. >> I >> think the reason for the strange stringing is that the sattle and the >> distance between the strings was changed to fit the smaller fingers of a >> young lady. >> do you think the red color of the bass strings is because they are wound >> with copper? >> I counted 13 frets - not unusual. >> >> regards from austria, >> peter >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Dale Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "baroque lute list" <[email protected]>; "Ed Durbrow" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 6:22 AM >> Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Pesne >> >> >> As for accuracy, I think there are a couple too many frets for >> reality.Which >> makes the whole lute thing look more like a prop. She sure is cute. Too >> bad, >> she's probably dead by now. >> Dale >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Ed Durbrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "baroque lute list" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 12:46 PM >> Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Pesne >> >> >>>I like her right hand. It looks very relaxed. The pinky is outside >>> the bridge and I bet she would have slid the whole hand gracefully >>> upwards when she needed to reach the lowest sounding courses, keeping >>> the little finger outside and parallel to the bridge the whole time. >>> I'm sure she could play and remain pretty and dignified alla Mary >>> Burwel. >>> >>> >>> >>> To get on or off this list see list information at >>> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > >
