> From: "Alexander Batov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 01:04:48 +0100 > To: <[email protected]> > Cc: "Roger E. Blumberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Icon -- nother new waist-cut viola, 1483,Italian > > >> That cut-out at the rear is very unusual. I'm not versed in the >> thumb-under >> style and it's optimums but I'll take your word for it this feature might >> facilitate it. > > It's a guess really; the cut-out also seems to make sense even for balancing > the instrument's body on the forearm of the right hand.
lord knows >> And "knock on wood". I always assume the latest find will the end of it, >> that my/our luck will run out, sources will dry up, or there couldn't >> possibly still be more out there. I'm always astonished too. My eyes do >> light up! ;-) > Knock, knock ... I wonder if more detailed images of that Spanish viola > fresco would come up soon? I'm eager to learn if those are fat single strings or not. >> There's another plucker from yesterday that throws me for loop a little >> because of it's very early date, place, unknown construction method, and >> unknown string-count. It's also from a Book of hours, French, 1440-1450. > > Yes, it is a bit of a puzzle (I never saw dandelions with spiral-like > tentacles either ;)) Mediterranean dandel-dragons -- a long extinct specie. I do get annoyed sometimes having to wade through many images of "viola" (the flower) during searches ;') I have to check now how many fingers/toes dragons were supposed to have per paw! It is a dam early example in any event. Roger To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
