Dear Andreas,
On your Hidalgo question, as people have been pointing out it is a
treatise on perspective not on fretting. So he even has the division
of the stringlength wrong for fretting purposes. He says divide the
stringlength into 16 parts whereas the the nearest whole number
It is an engraving from JosA(c) GarcAa Hidalgo`s Principios para
estudiar el nobilAsimo y real arte de la pintura (Madrid, 1693),
intending to show in perspective a rule on how to fret instruments
(unfortunately the proportions are wrong).
There is a modern edition, Valencia,
Here you have a fast translation to modern spanish (first reading).
Hope that helps and btw an interesting picture.
In general, the text is not related to painting or perspective, it is
all about how to put frets on plucked instruments.
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Sorry, lost in translation :) it's all about how to draw frets on
instruments, just following the right pattern about distances and
number of frets.
El 1 de enero de 2016, 22:48, David Morales
<[1]dmorale...@cuerdaspulsadas.com> escribiA^3:
Here you have a fast translation to
I think he is not really concerned with tying frets. What he is
illustrating is Rules of perspective when drawing frets on the fingerboard.
He starts off by saying that the distance between the bridge and the nut is
divided into 16 parts starting from point E on the drawing. It is not very
easy
