Dear All, The Paris musical instrument museum now sells its drawings through a subsidiary, Les Amis du Musee de la musique, this is almost impossible to find out from the museum site itself but here is a direct link to the page where they list the drawings available, including the vihuela.
http://www.citedelamusique.fr/francais/musee/liste.aspx When buying from another country you have to write to them asking the postal charges before ordering. Click on the link "nous ecrire" near the top of the page to raise an addressed email. Best wishes, David At 19:41 +0100 8/4/09, Din Ghani wrote: Tim, Over a year ago I bought a drawing of the fluted-back vihuela (E.0748) from the Cite del Musique (www.cite-musique.fr) - it took a fair bit of chasing to get it. Following a revamp of their website, I have not been able to find the list of drawings (with prices) that they had then, although the drawing is still listed as part of their collection - you have to search on "Vihuela" via their search page. Whether this means they no longer sell the drawings or not, I don't know - presumably you would need to contact someone there. The drawing was made by Carlos Gonzalez, an experienced luthier from Spain, and is very detailed. It came with a 15-page description of the instrument (mostly in French), and separate diagrams showing thickness measurements for the front and sides (although I had to get a copy of the one for the front from Carlos as it was missing). Of course it is not a working drawing for actual construction, but together with a degree of guesswork there was enough information for me to make my own working drawing for a scaled-down version of the instrument, and to build one successfully. Regards Din > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 08 April 2009 17:59 > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: [LUTE-BUILDER] Re: Technical drawings > > > > Speaking of which, does anyone know of plans for a vihuela da > mano? I would love to build one for myself some day, but the > closest I've been able to find are plans for a baroque guitar > that I would have to adapt for a sixth course. > > Tim > > To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- The Smokehouse, 6 Whitwell Road, Norwich, NR1 4HB England. Telephone: + 44 (0)1603 629899 Website: http://www.vanedwards.co.uk --
