Wiadomość napisana przez howard posner w dniu 7 paź 2012, o godz. 20:52:
> On Oct 7, 2012, at 11:22 AM, Jarosław Lipski <[email protected]> wrote: > >> So you see Mace as an oddball, inaccurate observer, someone quick to jump to >> odd conclusions, old deaf man who had lost touch with reality, an idiot who >> constructed an instrument impossible to play etc > > What I said was: "I'm not inclined to regard Mace as a scientific observer; > more like the eccentric uncle who makes dubious sweeping pronouncements at > family dinners." > Well, I've quoted your own words, but maybe you had something else on mind, sorry……. > >> I have read his book many times and found a lot of interesting details that >> do not sound like an utterance of a mentally ill person. Many musicologists >> quote Mace and as far as I know Musick's Monument is one of the most >> important sourcebooks for studying 17c performance practice. >> It doesn't mean that every word Mace wrote is true, > > Sure doesn't, and lots of important sources are full of misinformation. > So you have the correct information. Mace is obviously wrong. How do you know about it? >> but we are talking about very basic matters like colors - he wasn't blind as >> far as I know and the fact that he had to put his teeth on a lute doesn't >> matter here as we are not talking about what he used to hear. In fact many >> paintings confirm what he wrote. Many types of strings in 17c were commonly >> dyed. Red was in fact most popular color. > > Red is still pretty popular, but the original question was whether it > necessarily meant both "loaded" and "rotten." Mace doesn't mention loading at all. Only dying. What I wrote initially was addressed to Anthony in fact. I was asking him how can it be possible that a loaded string is rotten. If a gut was treated with oxides of some metals like lead, iron, copper etc it wouldn't rot easily as far as I can understand some chemical processes. Therefore my assumption was that if Mace mentioned rotten RED strings (not reddish or something - he clearly writes about colored gut), they must had been dyed only and not loaded. > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
