[LUTE] Re: New World lute/theorbo, etc.

[jjnoonan]

Not necessarily built in New France, but used in New France in 17th-18th C. 
I’m looking for reported lute activity in the New World colonial era.

jeff

From: Tristan von Neumann
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2019 12:34 PM
To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: [LUTE] Re: New World lute/theorbo, etc.

Just to make sure I understood this:

You mean lutes built in New France, not imported instruments?


:)
T*


On 30.07.19 19:31, jjnoo...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
> A question—mostly likely for luters north of the border—
>
> Do we have any documentary evidence (letters, wills, inventories, etc.) of 
> lutes or theorboes in New France (Canada and Western US) in 16th-17th 
> -18thcenturies? Are there any surviving instruments from the period in 
> Canadian museums or collections?
>
> A number of years ago, historian colleague showed me a reference to a theorbo 
> in the French Caribbean in a (I think) late 17th-c text. I’ve 
> misplaced the reference and am trying to dig it up again. (If anyone out 
> there knows this source, I’d appreciate your jogging my memory.)
>
> There are, of course, references to the guitar in 16th-c Spanish and French 
> colonies but I don’t recall ever seeing lutes listed in any of those 
> documents.
>
> Regionally, a local historian shared with me a reference to a guitar in the 
> early 19th-c will/inventory of a French settler in Ste. Genevieve MO. I 
> don’t think there is any description of the instrument, so no telling 
> if it was a French baroque guitar, a European transitional guitar or a New 
> World instrument.
>
> Thanks in advance for any pertinent ideas or suggestions.
>
> See ya,
>
> jeff
>
>
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