And a 13 or 14 fret neck on a coversion by Widhalm of a lute by Cocho now in Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuernberg, MI 55.
David At 11:30 -0400 1/4/07, Roman Turovsky wrote: >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 -- The Smokehouse, 6 Whitwell Road, Norwich, NR1 4HB England. Telephone: + 44 (0)1603 629899 Website: http://www.vanedwards.co.uk To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
