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Description: | Tenor Lute, with nine double strings and one single string, decorated rose, made from wood, ivory and gut. This lute is obliquely referred to in correspondence between Dolmetsch and James Joyce. In 1904, the writer wanted a lute so that he could travel along the south coast, singing English songs. Unfortunately, Dolmetsch lacked Joyce's enthusiasm: he explained to Joyce that he made a lute some years previously but would be unlikely to make another. Dolmetsch also warned Joyce that the lute was difficult to play and keep in tune. Dolmetsch made this lute while living in West Dulwich. He continued to make replicas of historic instruments well into the twentieth century. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum, London | Subjects: | work Leisure | Temporal: | 1893 | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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