I've posted a picture of this painting (L'homme au luth) here : http://lutegroup.ning.com/profile/JMP
Just join the group (free) and enjoy ! Best, Jean-Marie ======= 03-06-2008 15:24:22 ======= >Lots of good questions that obviously haven't been >satisfactorily answered. One thing that has bothered >me for a while as well is that the paintings often >aren't consistent within themselves. > >Quite often one finds red-ish strings on >non-successive courses, i.e. the 5th course and the >9th course might be red. As an example: the lute >player on the cover of Hoppy's 'Vieux Gaultier' CD >(who's the artist?) plays an instument with the first >and second courses red but also the BASS string only >of the 7th course. All the other ones are pale. >Why? > > >Chris > > >--- Jaros³aw Lipski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> >> >> Very often when I listen to such a discussion I >> think what the old guys >> would say about all this string business. In our >> century we have very >> scientific attitude towards music making. But are we >> sure this is all real >> science? We base on paintings and treatises, but can >> we say loaded strings >> are often mentioned in such a writings? Or can we be >> sure that this reddish >> color indicates copper loading? And then, I wonder >> how the artist (not very >> scientific minded creature) would paint a demi-file >> string with copper wire? >> Would he be able to show the whole structure of the >> wiring? Or would he mind >> showing it? Then, we have to look at the painting >> process in general and >> put it into the proper context (not so scientific I >> am afraid). Is the tone >> color absolutely realistic on all paintings from the >> period? Very often I >> find spectrum shifted towards brown, yellow, or red >> side. >> >> This is not to say I exclude loading, but probably I >> would be more careful >> on deciding what is historical and what is not. >> >> >> >> Best wishes >> >> >> -- >> >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >> > > > > > > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://poirierjm.free.fr 03-06-2008 N ¶è®ß¶¬+-±ç¥Ëbú+«b¢vÛiÿü0ÁË j»f¢ëayÛ¿Á·?ë^iÙ¢ø§uìa¶i
