Dana
I was quoting Daniel. These were his words:
What precise parts of Mace's work do you find not 'reliable'.
Storing lutes in beds. Smashed more theorbi than the airlines.
Mine were ones saying how consistent Mace was, and the quoting Arthur
Ness, in favour of this.
Anthony
Le 27 févr. 09 à 19:15, <[email protected]> a écrit :
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.
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