Sorry - I used the wrong from-Adress to post to this list: Am Freitag, 01. Januar 2016 11:00 CET, Andreas Schlegel <lute.cor...@sunrise.ch> schrieb: > Dear collected wisdom, > > I found this in Bob Spencer's collection, now in the Royal Academy of Music, > London: > https://www.ram.ac.uk/museum/item/20514 > http://keimages.ram.ac.uk/emuweb/php5/media.php?irn=16670 > > Who knows the exact meaning of this engraving?
Hello Anreas et al. I haven't seen this picture before but looking at it it lmediately reminded me of the construction for perspectivic distortions I learned long ago (the classic textbook example would be a tiled floor). From the info page about this page I get that the image was indeed part of a book about painting. Now, the interessting question is: Is this only a clever use of a rawing technique to approximate fret patterns or was this construction used to place frets? (if so this woul of course generate a goo approximation of a nequal tempered scale ...) Nice find, thank's for the post an a happy new year to all members Ralf Mattes P.S.: for the principal construction see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspective_(graphical)#Methods_of_construction > Is there a translation of the text? > > Thanks a lot! > > All the best, > > Andreas > > > Andreas Schlegel > Eckstr. 6 > CH-5737 Menziken > +41 (0)62 771 47 07 > lute.cor...@sunrise.ch > > > > > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
