My notes say 10 courses as 10 x 2 and I have a note for Larry Brown:
"Larry Brown From the museum's description: The soundboard of this
lute probably comes from another instrument of the same era and was
then applied to this shell in the XVII or XVIII century, when the
lute was changed into
Thanks again David,
I like the gilded rose - very early eighteenth century Italian
(Neapolitan even) baroque!
Do you know whether the neck remnants on the floor of the case belong
to this relict in its final phase or is it just a bit from some other
instrument? It's a pity we
Dear Both,
Indeed very interesting, I hadn't regarded that one as it's in the
Museum not the Music Conservatory and I didn't know the van der Meer
conjecture. For info I've put a photo of the sad remnants on display
up on my site at https://www.vanedwards.co.uk/Frei%20in%20bologna.htm
David
Very interesting Davide, thank you.
I see there's a copy of the book for sale - but at 150 Euros a bit too
much for me to buy for passing interest!
Does the illustration depict a lute with an extended upper peghead? -
or is it just a lute with a single pegbox (either bent back or in
Many thanks David, I'll look further at these instruments.
I also find it interesting that the engraving of an arciliuto in Dalla
Casa's collection of works depicts a different instrument than the one
than he is playing in his self-portrait
I've also speculated before that he
Dear Martyn,
I wrote something about it in my book on the lute history (IL LIUTO, LâEpos,
Palermo, 2012, p 260):
"A lute, very similar to that shown in Dalla Casaâs portrait - and not by
chance preserved in Bologna (Civic Medieval Museum) - is shown in the "Table of
exhibition illustrated
Dear Martyn,
Maybe one of the two archlutes by Venere and
Sellas in the Bologna, Museo Civico Medievale
Inv. Nos 1748 and 1749?
Both have been restored by the GNM in Nürnberg
but it's probably the much copied little one by
Sellas 640 + 1340, which I believe is in playing
order. I have no
