John Pringle (luthier) Efland NC USA

Baryton

After MAGNUS FELDLEN, Vienna 1647 SL 70.0cm An instrument for the musician who wants to unearth the repertoire that must have existed before Haydn.

After J.J.STADLMANN, Vienna c. 1760 SL 70.0cm This is not a copy of one instrument but an amalgam of what seemed the best features from several.

Current Price List

BARYTON
From $10,000



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O baryton de MAGNUS FELDLEN, Vienna 1647, encontra-se no Royal College of Music, de Londres, sob número RCM 204 (http://www.cph.rcm.ac.uk/Catalogues/String%20Catalogue/Pages/Stringcatalogue8.htm).

Mais comentários de Rod Byatt:

"John Pringle… American luthier makes them for $11K, one having been sold for $7K, in two styles, both with string lengths of 70cm (which makes them on par with my French 7-string basse de viole) which means to me that the fingerboard with case for sympathetic strings must be really quite wide (no wonder the Prince never played the bottom two strings). Pringle’s first style is an all-rounder suitable for the Haydn period; the second, interestingly is a design from 1645 and will appeal to those who have followed Tim Crawford’s splendid exploration into the English connectons involving Walter Rowe (1584/5-1671), English viol player who worked for most of his long life at the Brandenburg court in Berlin and Konigsberg (now Kaliningrad, Lithuania). My old mate Mersenne (1644), who tells me all I need to know about gamba in France in the first third of the C17, gets a guernsey implying that the hybrid bowed/plucked string technique was known in England before 1625."

http://rodbyatt.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/the-baryton-part-2/