Wow. I'd love to hear that. Has anyone recorded with that set up? Rob
www.robmackillop.net > On 22 May 2014, at 08:18, jean-michel Catherinot > <jeanmichel.catheri...@cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote: > > I don't understand the text of Besard like that (nor Souris did, and he > explain that widely in his introduction of the CNRS Besard). All the > courses from 10th to 3rd are an octave up, and the 2 top strings are as > "normal" G lute (so re-entrant tuning, not far from tiorbino). > Le Mercredi 21 mai 2014 23h45, Thomas Walker <twlute...@hotmail.com> a > ecrit : > Thanks kindly, everyone! It's what I suspected, but the comparative > rarity of an "ordinary" lute in reentrant tuning sent my looking for > some verification. > Cheers, > tom >> Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 20:17:25 +0200 >> To: [1]mar...@luteshop.co.uk; [2]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu >> From: [3]jmpoiri...@wanadoo.fr >> Subject: [LUTE] Re: Besard's Novus Partus >> >> " Nous appelons celui-ci "Nouveau Luth" non parce qu'il aurait une > forme (construction) nouvelle, mais seulement `a cause du nouvel > accord, qui n'est pas ingrat selon l'opinion de maintes (personnes). > C'est nous qui l'avons invente un jour. S'il differe peu en accord du > theorbe (comme on l'appelle), pourtant bien avant de connaitre cet > instrument j'accordais souvent le luth de cette maniere, mieux apte > pour la musique de n'importe quelle voix. Et ce seulement parce que > (par rapport `a l'accord ordinaire) la basse frappe l'oreille de > fac,on > plus claire, sonore et nette. Pourtant pour cet accord il est > absolument necessaire de composer de morceaux speciaux." >> >> Voici la traduction du passage de Besard proposee par Dimitri > Goldobine... >> >> Re-best, ;-) >> >> Jean-Marie >> -------------- >> >>> I think Besard explains the Nova Testudo in his preface - can > someone >>> help with the text? As I remember it is top two courses down an > octave, >>> like the theorbo. >>> >>> M >>>> On 21/05/2014 18:10, Thomas Walker wrote: >>>> Hello all-- >>>> Do any of you have a view(s) on what instrument Besard wanted > for > his >>>> Nova Testudo? The other lutes seem pretty clearly to be 9 or 10 > course >>>> instruments a 4th apart. The top lute, to me, looks like he's > assuming >>>> reentrant tuning. I'm tempted to think of Castaldi's tiorbino, > but >>>> that seems less likely outside of Italy that early in the 17th > c. >>>> Thoughts? >>>> Thanks kindly, >>>> Thomas Walker, Jr. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> >>>> To get on or off this list see list information at >>>> [4]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > -- > > -- > > References > > 1. mailto:mar...@luteshop.co.uk > 2. mailto:lute@cs.dartmouth.edu > 3. mailto:jmpoiri...@wanadoo.fr > 4. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
