On shaving the bridge--recently made this guitar/lutepegbox thing and at one point had to shave about 1mm from the bridge--i didn't do it for the sound but for some mechanical obstacle, but the result was very surprising! The resonation responsiveness of the guitar augmented to what seem to me with a third more of its previous resoantion. Then i tried on some lutes and put my finger on the bridge while the string resonates (without touching it) and indeed, it is very sensitive! Just like on this violin here--"buzzing" strings are almost like reeds. The guitar is not that fussy on touch though...
Normally, a professional lute would have holes drilled deliberately low, and > the bridge would have a plate glued on that could be shaved to lower the > distance of the string's noose from the belly. > For greater action problems fingerboard needs to be shaved. > RT > ______________ > Roman M. Turovsky > http://polyhymnion.org/swv > ------------------------------------------ Faites un voeu et puis Voila ! www.voila.fr -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
