Dear Ed I have done this job on almost 100 or di on old lute paintings and I never saw this way to fit the bass strings on the bridge By the way : if it was an historical option why the strings were sold in three sorts ? Treble , meanes and basses ? Treble and Menes should me sufficient The second question. Is : is not easier to drill larger holes ?? On the old paintings till today almost i just see the usual way to fit the strings, nothing of different Mimmo
Inviato da iPhone > Il giorno 15 feb 2017, alle ore 21:32, Ed Durbrow <[email protected]> > ha scritto: > > Has anyone done a survey of paintings and noticed any indications of thinning > the strings at the bridge or nut? > >> Thinning the string probably does weaken it, but since the strings in >> question are way below their breaking strain that would never be a >> problem. > > > Ed Durbrow > Saitama, Japan > http://www.youtube.com/user/edurbrow?feature=watch > https://soundcloud.com/ed-durbrow > http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ > > > > > > > > > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
