On Fri, Feb 27, 2009, Anthony Hind <[email protected]> said: >>> What precise parts of Mace's work do you find not 'reliable'.
>> Storing lutes in beds. Smashed more theorbi than the airlines. I fail to see how this makes Mace unreliable. I people followed that practice he is proven, only if not can he be proven unreliable; and if not, then, how did those instruments get smashed? (I assume you have the statistics, funny, havent seen any post-mortem rolls for theorbos in england) > It seems he must have had a very damp environment (except in bed), the RH of bedding depends a great deal on the sleeping habits of its occupants, especially if, during particularly cold weather, they found hats insufficiant and ducked heads under the blankets for self-=preservation (as I have found necessary these severeal months past). As Arthur has noted, the citterns of Boston were oft-times stored with linens. I would think perhaps that a nice cedar blanket chest would serve for lute-sized instruments. River estuarys are commonly swampy in places, Boston would not have been alone in colonial towns in having a 'damp' season; the caribian islands as well. -- Dana Emery To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
