Everything old is new again: note "enharmonic" guitars by Panormo and Lacote in the mid 19th c.
Here's an excerpt from a post I sent to the list years ago: > Panormo achieved his with segmented frets like little staples that set > into holes in the fingerboard. Lacote, with frets mounted to sliding > blocks in little tracks. Panormo's was also very big for its date of 1829, > and its profile bears a striking resemblance to modern, post-Torres > guitars. Both are pictured and described in a somewhat less scholarly but > still useful and entertaining text: > > Evans & Evans. 1977. Guitars: Music, History, Construction and Players > from the Renaissance to Rock. Paddington Press, NY. > > The Panormo is at the Musikinstrumenten-Museum der Universität Leipzig, > No. 566: > http://www.studia-instrumentorum.de/MUSEUM/GITARREN/0566.htm > Enjoy! Eugene > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Daniel Winheld > Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 2:03 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [LUTE] Guitar, but less forte/faulty, & organ > > For guitarists, ex-guitarists, occasional guitarists, and lutenists who > care- > And especially for those of us for whom repertoire, timbre, & > temperaments vis-a-vis matters guitaristic are of concern, check out > this guy. I have listened to a few of his CD's at the music store > where I work, some very worthwhile material. I believe we have noted > his interchangeable fretboards on this list before, but his music is > worth a hearing. > > http://www.otherminds.org/shtml/Schneider.shtml > > And also- > Baroque organ reconstruction & reproduction. A must read for us, really. > > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/science/22organ.html?_r=1&em=&pagewanted > =all > > -- > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
