On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 7:29, R. Mattes wrote:
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 22:26:19 +0200, Benjamin Narvey wrote
> Both. Whike French theorboes tended to be single strung,
Taken from Robert Spencer's article:
"He [Mersenne] added the correction that his engraving of
a tuorbe (Fig.
instruments - but so did the Italians and others!
MH
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From: R. Mattes
To: Benjamin Narvey
Cc: Andreas Schlegel ; lute list
Sent: Thursday, 14 August 2014, 22:29
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Italian Theorbo: 6/8, 7/8, 8/8
On Aug 14, 2014, at 2:29 PM, R. Mattes wrote:
> Poor Castaldi - according to his own engravings he played an instrument
> that, according to modern folklore, was a typical french theorbo (rather
> small, single strung with a roundish/deep body).
Unless it’s the tiorbino.
To get on or off thi
This is not De Visee -- of whom there are no known portraits. It is
thought to be sometimes Denis Gautier but even that is far from ascertained.
Alain
On 08/14/2014 02:29 PM, R. Mattes wrote:
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 22:26:19 +0200, Benjamin Narvey wrote
Both. Whike French theorboes tended to be s
Let's think the other way around. What data would you have that
contradicts the size and double stringing of the surviving instruments?
Is an engraving by Castaldi more important than the surviving
instruments and all the iconography? What justifies the theorbo's
double reentrant tun
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 22:26:19 +0200, Benjamin Narvey wrote
> Both. Whike French theorboes tended to be single strung,
This sounds as if we can make sound statements about the the types of
instruments used in France. How large is our sample compared to the
population? (Read: how many surviving instr
Both. Whike French theorboes tended to be single strung, only the largest
Italian ones (stopped string length near 100 cm) were single; the vast majority
of Italian theorboes (and the ones corresponding to the sizes we tend to play,
80 cm and up) almost always double. This can be seen in both su
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 18:39:55 +0200, BENJAMIN NARVEY wrote
> Dear Luters,
>
>I notice that almost everyone keeps the seventh course of their Italian
>theorboes as a stopped string on the first pegbox, mind all the sources
>I know point to having only 6 on the stopped strings, and 8 diapa
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 19:00:24 +0200, Benjamin Narvey wrote
> Of course! I meant courses, not strings. Single stringing is
> mainly a modern phenomenon...
Where did you get this idea from? Is this statement based on
_historic_ evidence or on surviving instruments?
Cheers, Ralf Mattes
To get o
A moderately-sized 7x2/7x1 theorbo by Christofolo Choc exists at
theA Musikinstrumenten in Berlin. I'm not sure of others; the 7/7
arrangement is overwhelmingly found on attiorbati. The widespread
contemporary usage on theorboes seems mostly due in its great
convenience, with modern
And 6x2 in the petit jeu, normally...
Andreas
Am 14.08.2014 um 18:39 schrieb BENJAMIN NARVEY :
> Dear Luters,
>
> I notice that almost everyone keeps the seventh course of their Italian
> theorboes as a stopped string on the first pegbox, mind all the sources
> I know point to having onl
Of course! I meant courses, not strings. Single stringing is mainly a
modern phenomenon...
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On 14 Aug 2014, at 18:56, Andreas Schlegel <[1]lute.cor...@sunrise.ch>
wrote:
And 6x2 in the petit jeu, normally...
Andreas
Am 14.08.2014 um 18:39 schrieb BENJA
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