Rob MacKillop wrote: >That is a beautiful instrument, Stuart. I would LOVE to a have a copy. It >was on the cover of Early Music magazine some months ago. I fell in love >with it then. Alexander Batov considered making a copy, but I don't have the >cash. BTW, Alexander is a viol maker also. I would like one of those too! > >Rob > > > >>http://www.anselmus.ch/images/icon_dai_libri.jpg >> >> > > > Yes, I think it's a very striking instrument. Maybe this is a daft question (gven that it's some sort of allegorical painting) but I wonder how big you think the thing is? The modern reproduction looks like a G- or maybe A-tuned instrument. But Giralamo's instrument in the painting looks much smaller.
Here's the painting: http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_Art/viewOnezoom.asp?dep=11&zoomFlag=0&viewmode=1&item=20%2E92 Looks more like a treble instrument, do you think, and that's part of its attractiveness? To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
