On 2 February 2011 12:15, Mathias Roesel <[email protected]> wrote: > May I say that I still use my copy (5th edition 1982). By and large it's > still useful for locating sources.
Me too. The 5th edition is quite expanded, there's an earlier edition floating around on my bookshelves somewhere, too. Pohlmann, RISM VIIB and HMBrown, quite the combination for us. David > > Mathias > >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >> Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im >> Auftrag von David Tayler >> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 2. Februar 2011 00:25 >> An: lute-cs.dartmouth.edu >> Betreff: [LUTE] Re: Laute, Theorbe, Chitarrone >> >> I have this book, it is useful but outdated. >> Hopefully someone will write a new one, or perhaps the work has been done >> already? >> >> The book lists many of the surviving instruments, with measurements. >> There is enough raw data there to draw some interesting conclusions (lutes >> come in many sizes, shapes, and stringing) However, there needs to be > research >> into the state of the instruments, and especially the size of the bridge > holes. >> >> There is also a worklist, of sorts, but this is outdated as well. >> >> I've had on my "to do" list for a while now to put all the measurements > together >> into a big table (the instruments are arbitarily divided). >> Presumably, this would show a either a gapless or very small gap continuum > in >> sizes. If there are "lacunae", that could be interesting, but it looks to > be lots of >> different sizes. >> If indeed there is a broad continuum, then we would need to reevaluate how > we >> categorize all these instruments. >> >> The caveat here is the "original condition" >> dt >> >> >> >> >> At 06:32 AM 1/26/2011, you wrote: >> >> >What is the current consensus of Ernst Pohlmann's book, "Laute, >> >Theorbe, Chitarrone" >> >Is it still reliable enough to use as a reference, or is it getting > outdated? >> >Is there any work to update the material? >> > >> > >> > >> >-- >> > >> >To get on or off this list see list information at >> >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >> > > > > > -- ******************************* David van Ooijen [email protected] www.davidvanooijen.nl *******************************
