----- Original Message ----- From: "Alexander Batov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu> Cc: "Roger E. Blumberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 5:49 AM Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: vihuela grande
> On Wednesday, December 07, 2005 3:40 PM Roger E. Blumberg wrote: > > >> Following the lines of the resent discussion of large-size vihuelas and > >> guitars here is a late 15th - early 16th century Catalan picture (which > >> isn't very often reproduced) that shows what appears to be a sort of > > "double > >> bass" size vihuela or viola da mano: > > > >> http://www.vihuelademano.com/current/pages/vihuela-grande.htm > > > > Alexander, is this image still around? Pretty please ;') > > Thanks > > Roger > > Thank you, Roger, for pointing this out. > There was a hard drive failure on my server about a week ago and, although > they promised to restore everything as it was, this page seems to have had > 'mysteriously disappeared. It is back there now: > http://www.vihuelademano.com/current/pages/vihuela-grande.htm > > Alexander > thanks much. Boy that is a monster!, and a gold mine of a picture, 4-in-1. The multi-part (long strips) fretboard detail on the bass instrument is reminiscent of at least one early Spanish viol picture I've seen, 1475-85, Heremitage of St. Feliu (St. Félix) in Xàtiva (Valencia, Spain). This is from another of those recently and heavily restored frescos http://www.thecipher.com/viol_1475-85_Valencia_Spain_lrg-clr-deta.jpg It's also nice to see more pluckers on the order of Timoteo Viti's small bodied bowed viol (the one with two bridges) http://www.thecipher.com/viol_TimoteoViti_Madonna-Child_c1500_Italy_clr_deta .jpg compare to http://www.vihuelademano.com/current/images/vihuela-mano2.jpg and http://www.thecipher.com/viola_sine_arculo_c1485-1510_detv2.jpg and http://www.thecipher.com/viol_4str10fret-SardiniaItalyc1500xsm_det.jpg here's another fairly large French bass plucker, 1508 http://www.thecipher.com/viol-guitar_GonesseOrgan_1508_France_det1.jpg from this painted organ case balcony (Abbey Eglise Saint Pierre et Saint Paul) http://www.thecipher.com/viola-GonesseOrganItselfFrance1508_deta.jpg do you or anyone have more? I'm a glutton for pictures (I think you can tell), they're pretty much all we have to go on. What else have I missed in that or other threads, I wonder, and plead ;') thanks again Roger To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
