--- On Mon, 2/6/08, howard posner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: howard posner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [LUTE] Re: Choosing Strings
> To: "LUTELIST List" <[email protected]>
> Date: Monday, 2 June, 2008, 6:31 PM
> 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?
How do you conclude this from what I wrote? I'd be grateful for a response to
my query (above) as to how you are able to state that "the the actual range of
sizes of surviving instruments is much larger" without knowing if they were
historically played as single or double re-entrant instruments.
>
> > 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."
So why do you think they're so unusual ('by any standard')? Can it be that it
doesn't fit your own preconceptions
>
> > 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.
>
Well you can, of course, choose to ignore the historical evidence if it doesn't
fit with your personal prejudice; others prefer to look at all the available
information.
MH
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