Dear David,
Here's the footnote 346 from my book "The Lute in Europe 2":
346 The four surviving German theorbos known to date are:
63 IN PADOVA Vvendelio Venere. Conversions Sebastian Schelle, Lauten und
Gei-/genmacher in Nürn- berg, / zugericht A. 73: 76 (6x2 = 85.5 cm + 4x1 = 108
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Hello again B-luters,
I've been reading, from a letter written by Weiss, that he apparently
adapted one of his instruments for continuo playing, presumably by
removing the chanterelle, moving everything else up one and adding
another bass string at the bottom. And also Baron's comments tha
Okay, I'm dutifully working my way through the "authorised" version
of Weiss's Allemande from Dresden vol. 2, Suite 9 in C Major. I'm
trying as hard as I can to observe all the things that are going on
within this piece, but I still have no idea as to how the piece
should sound. I can pre
Hi again,
Here's a translation of Nicholas Vallet's instructions from 1618. The
remarks about 'thumb inside' are amusing!
Bill
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Hi David,
I just dug out these translations I did back in 1980 for the Lute Society
Newsletter. I hope the attachments work OK. I should point out that my
knowledge of 17
