>Drawing wire was invented in Germany in the mid 1300's, drawn steel 1632. >Beaten wire technology of before the 14th century precludes the possibility >of metal stings on celtic harps until Renaissance (counted from Dante, >Giotto & Co). >RT >______________ >Roman M. Turovsky >http://polyhymnion.org/swv >
It doesn't preclude it. A beaten wire could be lapped to whatever level of consistency and accuracy was desired, given reasonable skill of the string-maker. Thousands of amateurs have made model steam and internal combustion engines, fitting the pistons to cylinders by lapping (serarately, not by lapping the piston inside the cylinder, which cannot produce the fit required). It is perfectly feasible to work within dimentional limits of one or two ten thousanths of an inch (0.0001"-0.0002", or say 0.002mm-0.004mm) by lapping with simply made and crude seeming laps. David Cameron To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
