----- Original Message ----- From: Stuart Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, March 22, 2007 6:29 pm Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: chittarino diuserso (II)
> bill kilpatrick wrote: > > rummaging around google, i see that the engravings for > > the period instruments complied in filippo buonanni's > > "gabinetto armonico" were made by arnold van > > westerhout (1651-1725.) > > > > it's been a couple of days now ... is really no one > > interested in discussing or even viewing this > > (apparently) little known, dimutive baroque guitar? > > > > you can flare your nostrils, arch your eyebrows and > > curl your lips but ... there it is. > > > > (gulp) - bill > > > > I haven't looked at these engravings for a while but I seem to remember > that many of them look rather strange and not easily related to known > instruments. I think there are a couple reasons for little reply. 1) Gabinetto Armonico is pretty well known, and I'd guess most subscribers here have seen it or own modern printings. I'm almost certain the book has received some discussion on one of these lists in the recent past, and I believe the consensus is that it occasionally is a little more fantastical than practical. (It's possible I'm remembering a discussion from some other list or forum.) And 2) there isn't anything controversial about early diminutive guitars, no curling of lips required. Smallish guitars have been around as long as there have been guitars. There are even extant instruments from the baroque era: e.g., that by Giovanni Smit (1646) with a scale length clocking a scant 37 cm. Best, Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
