On 12/01/14 12:42 AM, heiman.dan...@juno.com wrote:
Instrument(s) for sale:http://bit.ly/1ddztq7 If I count correctly, this instrument has1 single chanterelle + 4 double courses on the fingerboard9 single courses on the extension. Is there any historical, modern or practical justification for this configuration?In other words, does there exist any music that would be playable on it?
Those are instruments designed by Zachariah Taylor in the UK, built in Pakistan, and imported into the UK by the Early Music Shop and the USA by Mid-East. They tend to be quite heavily built and rather odd designs, but have the advantage of selling for a fraction of the cost of custom-made instruments. I own one of their treble lutes (in a', mistakenly called a "descant lute") which is quite nice, much nicer than their standard g' lutes, and their Sellas baroque guitar, which needs some work to make it playable. They also make a "baroque lute" in 6 + 8 configuration with a shorter scale:
http://www.mid-east.com/Strings/Lute/Roosebeck-Baroque-Lute-6-8-Rosewood Geoff -- Geoff Gaherty Foxmead Observatory Coldwater, Ontario, Canada http://www.gaherty.ca http://starrynightskyevents.blogspot.com/ To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
