Re: Iconography (was:The Right Hand Revisited)

2003-11-22 Thread G.R. Crona
Hi Ed, | Speaking of which, I couldn't figure out how to download McFeely's | pictures in one swoop. Everything else is in PDF. I thought you could find her collection in a folder of JPGs, but haven't looked lately. | I'm so glad you mentioned this. I just bought a WONDERFUL John | Rollins alto

Re: Iconography (was:The Right Hand Revisited)

2003-11-22 Thread Daniel F Heiman
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has a photo of the Andreas Berr lute online at http://www.mfa.org/artemis/fullrecord.asp?oid=51267did=600 Regards, Daniel Heiman On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 22:23:27 -0600 Michael Thames [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Vance, snip . The Berr is a very elegant tear drop

Re: Iconography (was:The Right Hand Revisited)

2003-11-22 Thread Ed Durbrow
Hi Ed, | Speaking of which, I couldn't figure out how to download McFeely's | pictures in one swoop. Everything else is in PDF. I thought you could find her collection in a folder of JPGs, but haven't looked lately. I can download one picture at a time by dragging them to the desktop, but how

Re: Iconography (was:The Right Hand Revisited)

2003-11-21 Thread Ed Durbrow
that's why I downloaded Alfonso's collection, although it took ages on my old messerschmidt PC. (It's an old Siemens =]) But at least those Messerschmidt PCs are nice and compact. :-) What a good idea and fine collection Alfonso! Together with the pictures McFeely's posted, it's excellent

Re: Iconography (was:The Right Hand Revisited)

2003-11-21 Thread Michael Thames
Durbrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: G.R. Crona [EMAIL PROTECTED]; lute list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 7:46 PM Subject: Re: Iconography (was:The Right Hand Revisited) that's why I downloaded Alfonso's collection, although it took ages on my old messerschmidt PC. (It's an old

Re: Iconography (was:The Right Hand Revisited)

2003-11-21 Thread Vance Wood
said it could not. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: Michael Thames [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: G.R. Crona [EMAIL PROTECTED]; lute list [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ed Durbrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 6:35 PM Subject: Re: Iconography (was:The Right Hand Revisited

Re: Iconography (was:The Right Hand Revisited)

2003-11-21 Thread Roman Turovsky
I think a lot of the Lutes we use today are overly large. When my Lute was built, the first efforts of a friend and myself at doing this, it was decided, after looking at a lot of Iconography, that the Lutes represented were quite a bit smaller than those popular today. This conclusion was

Re: Iconography (was:The Right Hand Revisited)

2003-11-21 Thread Michael Thames
, November 22, 2003 12:40 AM Subject: Re: Iconography (was:The Right Hand Revisited) Hi Michael: Interesting observation about this conversion. I trust your judgment and opinion on this issue as a builder. However you might want to brace yourself for an onslaught from one of the members

Re: Iconography (was:The Right Hand Revisited)

2003-11-21 Thread Vance Wood
Message - From: Roman Turovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lute list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 8:38 PM Subject: Re: Iconography (was:The Right Hand Revisited) I think a lot of the Lutes we use today are overly large. When my Lute was built, the first efforts of a friend

Re: Iconography (was:The Right Hand Revisited)

2003-11-19 Thread David Van Edwards
At 9:03 PM +0100 19/11/03, G.R. Crona wrote: I was captivated by Bartolomeo Passarotti's 1576 painting. (Pic. 29 in the collection) It says anno iubilei bon 1576. There is also some music there in the background, and the lute looks like an ~60 cm. mensur instrument. There's some unreadable text