Not an important post but I just noticed a photo on the Lutening site
that I thought I'd share.
It's a 1529 Dutch painting by Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen that depicts the
wedding at Cana but the lute is very interesting. I'd guess it's about
50-55cms in stringlength with a nearly perfect outline of the Gerle.
All well and good but notice the layered rose and the gothic window
where the 12th fret would be! And then there are the extra sound holes
on either side of the rose. A lovely mix of solid rennaissance design
w/ leftovers from the previous century. I think we're making our 6c
lutes way too homogenous!
http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/images/aria/sk/z/sk-a-4820.z
Thanks to Jean-Marie Poirer for posting it!
Sean
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