[LUTE] Re: Eleonore von Schlieben-Sanditten

2012-07-21 Thread Jarosław Lipski
Lipski jaroslawlip...@wp.pl wrote: From: JarosAA'aw Lipski jaroslawlip...@wp.pl Subject: [LUTE] Re: Eleonore von Schlieben-Sanditten To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Date: Friday, 20 July, 2012, 21:00 Luis, We live in very different times. In past people were accustomed

[LUTE] Re: Eleonore von Schlieben-Sanditten

2012-07-21 Thread Jarosław Lipski
jaroslawlip...@wp.pl wrote: From: JarosAA'aw Lipski jaroslawlip...@wp.pl Subject: [LUTE] Re: Eleonore von Schlieben-Sanditten To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Date: Friday, 20 July, 2012, 21:00 Luis, We live in very different times. In past people were accustomed to things

[LUTE] Re: Eleonore von Schlieben-Sanditten

2012-07-20 Thread Martyn Hodgson
Dear Jaroslaw, It may be some sort of sport (in a modern biological sense), but I suspect either the painter didn't quite get it right - see how the first string is fastened not to the to the body of the bridge but to the treble point! - or the neck is indeed incorrectly set

[LUTE] Re: Eleonore von Schlieben-Sanditten

2012-07-20 Thread Jarosław Lipski
Dear Martyn, It may look very incorrect however we have to keep in mind that a painting is not a photograph. A painter has other goals to achieve. We can examine some interesting details of paintings, but coming into direct conclusions is another matter. First of all, Antoine Pesne who was the

[LUTE] Re: Eleonore von Schlieben-Sanditten

2012-07-20 Thread Jarosław Lipski
Yes, I agree more or less. The only thing that I am not sure of is whether 2 first grooves on the nut are far apart because this is how they were in reality, or Pesne didn't bother to depict a proper spacing. So it could be either swan neck 13c (14c?) modified for continuo, or a German d-minor

[LUTE] Re: Eleonore von Schlieben-Sanditten

2012-07-20 Thread William Samson
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Eleonore von Schlieben-Sanditten Dear Martyn, It may look very incorrect however we have to keep in mind that a painting is not a photograph. A painter has other goals to achieve. We can examine some interesting details of paintings, but coming into direct conclusions

[LUTE] Re: Eleonore von Schlieben-Sanditten

2012-07-20 Thread Martyn Hodgson
? If the latter this might be a dud lute being used as a sort of stage prop. Martyn --- On Fri, 20/7/12, JarosAA'aw Lipski jaroslawlip...@wp.pl wrote: From: JarosAA'aw Lipski jaroslawlip...@wp.pl Subject: [LUTE] Re: Eleonore von Schlieben-Sanditten To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu

[LUTE] Re: Eleonore von Schlieben-Sanditten

2012-07-20 Thread Jarosław Lipski
Lipski jaroslawlip...@wp.pl To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Friday, 20 July 2012, 12:52 Subject: [LUTE] Re: Eleonore von Schlieben-Sanditten Dear Martyn, It may look very incorrect however we have to keep in mind that a painting is not a photograph. A painter has other goals to achieve. We

[LUTE] Re: Eleonore von Schlieben-Sanditten

2012-07-20 Thread Mathias Rösel
Let us suppose, for a moment, that the two missing strings are replaced - Assuming that they are two single strings, that would give 10 courses on the first pegbox. That seems rather a lot to me - I'm not aware of any instrument of this kind (archlute, theorbo, swan-neck) that has

[LUTE] Re: Eleonore von Schlieben-Sanditten

2012-07-20 Thread Jarosław Lipski
, 20/7/12, JarosAA'aw Lipski jaroslawlip...@wp.pl wrote: From: JarosAA'aw Lipski jaroslawlip...@wp.pl Subject: [LUTE] Re: Eleonore von Schlieben-Sanditten To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Date: Friday, 20 July, 2012, 12:52 Dear Martyn, It may look very incorrect however we have

[LUTE] Re: Eleonore von Schlieben-Sanditten

2012-07-20 Thread Louis Aull
Jarislow, Certain things do stand out as accurate: 1) Lay a ruler down the edge of the fingerboard on both sides, these coincide with edges of the bridge. The neck was originally a baroque lute with a bent neck. The artist does not bother to correct the un-esthetic

[LUTE] Re: Eleonore von Schlieben-Sanditten

2012-07-20 Thread Jarosław Lipski
--- On Fri, 20/7/12, JarosAA'aw Lipski jaroslawlip...@wp.pl wrote: From: JarosAA'aw Lipski jaroslawlip...@wp.pl Subject: [LUTE] Re: Eleonore von Schlieben-Sanditten To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Date: Friday, 20 July, 2012, 12:52 Dear Martyn, It may look very

[LUTE] Re: Eleonore von Schlieben-Sanditten

2012-07-20 Thread Jarosław Lipski
concerts? Martyn --- On Fri, 20/7/12, Jaros³aw Lipski jaroslawlip...@wp.pl wrote: From: Jaros³aw Lipski jaroslawlip...@wp.pl Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: Eleonore von Schlieben-Sanditten To: Martyn Hodgson hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk Date: Friday, 20 July, 2012, 17:35 Just another

[LUTE] Re: Eleonore von Schlieben-Sanditten

2012-07-20 Thread wayne cripps
message: From: Jarosław Lipski jaroslawlip...@wp.pl Subject: [LUTE] Re: Eleonore von Schlieben-Sanditten Date: July 20, 2012 1:04:43 PM EDT To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Thank you Martyn, Sorry, I've pushed the button too early by mistake. No, I am sorry, unfortunately it is not known to me

[LUTE] Re: Eleonore von Schlieben-Sanditten

2012-07-20 Thread Jarosław Lipski
: From: Jarosław Lipski jaroslawlip...@wp.pl Subject: [LUTE] Re: Eleonore von Schlieben-Sanditten Date: July 20, 2012 1:04:43 PM EDT To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Thank you Martyn, Sorry, I've pushed the button too early by mistake. No, I am sorry, unfortunately it is not known to me, but I

[LUTE] Re: Eleonore von Schlieben-Sanditten

2012-07-20 Thread Louis Aull
Jaroslaw, Just conjecture, but I would not use a working instrument to pose for many hours for a painting of this detail. I keep mine in a case at all times it is not being played to help keep it in tune. Do you think she would tolerate a lute of her own that dirty? In that dress?

[LUTE] Re: Eleonore von Schlieben-Sanditten

2012-07-20 Thread Jarosław Lipski
Luis, We live in very different times. In past people were accustomed to things that we wouldn't tolerate. As far as I know many people were portrait with real instruments, otherwise we could say that all iconography is rubbish. Is portrait of Moutton just a rubbish? Was he holding a prop? A

[LUTE] Re: Eleonore von Schlieben-Sanditten

2012-07-19 Thread David Van Edwards
Dear Jaroslaw, That's fascinating, I'd never looked for a high res image and had never noticed. I'm sure you're right that the coloured strings imply octave stringing, rare up as far as the 3rd course though it is. The empty nut grooves for 2 top strings are a bit more of a

[LUTE] Re: Eleonore von Schlieben-Sanditten

2012-07-19 Thread William Samson
Looks like eight double courses on the petit jeu and another four double diapasons. The red (loaded?) strings start at the third course, suggesting that it had a low pitch. The first course seems to start some distance away from the edge of the fingerboard at the nut, but passes

[LUTE] Re: Eleonore von Schlieben-Sanditten

2012-07-19 Thread Roman Turovsky
According to Peter Greenaway all baroque painting is pure symbolism. RT On 7/19/2012 4:32 PM, William Samson wrote: Looks like eight double courses on the petit jeu and another four double diapasons. The red (loaded?) strings start at the third course, suggesting that it had a low

[LUTE] Re: Eleonore von Schlieben-Sanditten

2012-07-19 Thread David Van Edwards
Sorry, correction, I miscounted the diapasons it's 12 course instrument, even odder. Though, if she was given to wholesale restringing, it could imply a restrung theorbo (or more likely archlute given the apparent size) with the normal 8 single diapasons becoming here four octave

[LUTE] Re: Eleonore von Schlieben-Sanditten

2012-07-19 Thread Mathias Rösel
removed one or two top courses. It's ended up as an 11 course instrument and there is a fair amount of 11 course music intended for liuto attiorbato, I count four double courses on the extension and eight double course over the fret-board, totalling twelve courses. The coloured

[LUTE] Re: Eleonore von Schlieben-Sanditten

2012-07-19 Thread Jarosław Lipski
Dear David, Indeed it looks like 8+4 setting. The 1st string runs almost to the edge of the bridge, but when examined on a big screen it's difficult to say if there is any hole left on the bridge (treble side). As for a ribbon stripe attached to the neck block button it could be that this

[LUTE] Re: Eleonore von Schlieben-Sanditten

2012-07-19 Thread Jarosław Lipski
Bill, This portrait was painted by Antoine Pesne (1683-1757) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Pesne Symbolism in art was used since ancient times. Baroque period is no exception, however if a painter intended some kind of an allegory it would be more pronaunced and it wouldn't concern just