On 5/14/2015 1:48 AM, Monica Hall wrote:
There is never any evidence that something was never done!
An important "Primal Directive" to keep in mind...
As a matter of interest I have put the illustration from British Library
Add.Ms.30342 on my page at earlyguitar.ning.for those of you who belong.
This is the same as the Cellier drawing.
The two drawings are thought to have been copied independently from an
earlier printed source.
One possible explanation is that the plate for the original engraving did
not reproduce the drawing as a mirror image so that when it was
printed it
was the wrong way round.
As an old printer myself (20 years in the offset lithography trade) I
can tell you that too many left-handed pipe organs- (or lutes with bass
extensions) in a picture definitely raises a red flag or two.
What Michael thinks is a widely spaced 4th course is really a single 1st
course.
The manuscripts both reproduce a drawing of an organ. This has the pipes
the wrong way round -the shortest on the left, the longest on the right.
This is a common error in engravings.
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