I was about to say the same thing.A Certainly not a theorbo, and the neckA looks like it had a serious alignment problem with the body of the lute....
A Bruno On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Monica Hall <[1][email protected]> wrote: Well - he's not playing a theorbo - and the theorbo is not trying to be a guitar!!! A These Art Historians really need to be educated! At a guess I would say it is meant to be an archlute but however good the artist may be a painting satin he seems to have got in a twist with the peg boxes!! Monica ----- Original Message ----- From: "morgan cornwall" <[2][email protected]> To: "Lute Net" <[3][email protected]>; "Stuart Walsh" <[4][email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2009 2:01 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Double headed lute pic? Stuart, this may help: Van Mieris - Self Portrait from the Uffizi Gallery [5]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FdSIys2XfI regards, morgan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stuart Walsh" <[6][email protected]> To: "Lute Net" <[7][email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 4:37 PM Subject: [LUTE] Double headed lute pic? I came across this image recently - possibly a chap playing a double-headed lute. So (?) Dutch or English? A Perhaps it's from a well-known painting? I only had a camera phone and it was shot at an angle to avoid the flash glaring against the glass. I've cropped the writing underneath- but you can't see it clearly anyway - it says something like 'micris' with some kind of diacritical twiddle over the letter c (if it is a c). [8]http://www.pluckedturkeys.co.uk/dhlute.jpg Stuart To get on or off this list see list information at [9]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. mailto:[email protected] 3. mailto:[email protected] 4. mailto:[email protected] 5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FdSIys2XfI 6. mailto:[email protected] 7. mailto:[email protected] 8. http://www.pluckedturkeys.co.uk/dhlute.jpg 9. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
