Justin Glaie - A lute for the Vleeshuis Museum ('The Flemish Lute')
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- čas přidán 13. 05. 2024
- At the request of Museum Vleeshuis, musician and instrument maker Justin Glaie created a special lute in 2021. This is an instrument of which examples have survived only in Flemish paintings from the first half of the 17th century.
In this video, Justin talks more about this special instrument and its construction. - Hudba
Very interesting! I had observed these extensions in paintings, but this is the first time I have seen them reproduced. I think you will be getting many orders!
fine project, Justin- congratulations!
Thank you very much Lee, it means a lot coming from an esteemed colleague such as yourself!
Bravo! You've brought Huygens' lute to life! Lovely playing, too. I'd like to see what's going on behind the extension: individual rollers for each string? And it would be nice to hear it with gut strings....
Thank you very much! Unfortunately I wasn't able to have video shooting while I was working on the rollers. But I used one for each string, to ensure stability of tuning. For now Nylgut strings a used, it's close enough to gut while being manageable for concert usage, but I'm also curios to hear it with gut sometime, maybe for a specific project! If you want more Huygens, here's a recording of one of his palms with the instrument and some added parts: czcams.com/video/uuEXuBvHKzU/video.html
Very nice, but why do you not call it a Flemish archlute?
It was a big point of debate indeed. So far I have found the use of "archlute" only in Italy ("Archiluito"). Although the lute fashion was influenced by Italy for many decades, it felt counter productive tu use an Italian term to describe an instrument typical to the Low-Countries. First calling it a "tuorbe", Mersenne corrects himself and refers to similar instruments (small extended lutes with double strings) in French as "Luth à double manche" (double necked lute). In England some publications refer to the 12 course double headed lutes as "theorbo-lutes" when used for accompaniment. My thinking was that "theorbo" refers to a function rather than an instrument. Theorbo is also simpler and brings this function quickly to mind while being vague enough to allow a adjective to be added to specify the region it comes from.