On Jun 2, 2008, at 2:06 AM, Martyn Hodgson wrote: > How do do we (ie you) know, without prejudging the issue, that > > "1) the actual range of sizes of surviving instruments is much > larger" This implies you are able to identify double re-entrant > instruments from single (not to mention archlutes)- which may > indeed be smaller;
So a "toy theorbo" is anything smaller than 93cm? > 2) "99 cm is extremely large by any standard" Again you're > prejudging the issue. In fact this size fits with the largest > extant instruments, Yes, the largest instruments would be, by definition, "extremely large." > 3) "Praetorius never got within 400 km of Padua, let alone Rome." > So? Do you really think there was little or no communication within > Europe at the time? Communication would not necessarily mean everything Praetorious wrote about theorbos, Rome or Padua would be accurate, or even make sense. We have more communication now than we can deal with, and there's plenty of inaccuracy and nonsense floating around. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
