Dear Mike;
I haven't had a problem. I also play viola da gamba which has a
pretty flat bridge compared to a cello. Maybe that's the reason. I think the
canter of the bridge is determined by the shape of the fingerboard. My 5
string was originally built as a 5 string about 160 years ago, it wasn't
adapted from a 4 string bass as most 5 string basses are. Maybe these
adapted basses have flatter fingerboards.
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "MWWilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "gary digman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "lutelist" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: Newbie Question #2
> Hi Gary,
>
> How do you like your 5 string double bass? I could never get used to the
> flatter arch of a 5 string bridge and opted for a low C fingered extension
> many years ago.
>
> Regards,
> Mike
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "gary digman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "lutelist" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 7:58 AM
> Subject: Re: Newbie Question #2
>
>
>> We could have some form of "French" tuning pegs such as exist on my 5
> string
>> double bass. They combine a gear with a wooden peg under slight friction.
> I
>> like them so much on my bass that I've often wished I had them on my
> lutes,
>> baroque guitar and gamba also. Maybe we can get the ear of a luthier on
>> this.
>>
>> Gary
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Dr. Marion Ceruti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: "Vance Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "lute list"
> <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>;
>> "Caroline Usher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 1:11 PM
>> Subject: Re: Newbie Question #2
>>
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>> > Vance Wood wrote:
>> >
>> > "However there is an historical accuracy not touched on and that is the
>> > limits of
>> > expediency in addressing some of the same problems that seem to plague
>> > us."
>> >
>> > ++I agree with Vance on this one.
>> > Whether we like it or not, we are stuck with historical accuracy.
>> > This past weekend I brought my 8c ren lute from the coast where
>> > it is cool and (relatively) damp to the desert where it is hot and dry.
>> > It took me an hour to tune, pegs being the way they are. If we
>> > were more interested in efficiency than were were in historical
>> > accuracy we would be using machine tuning. I can tune three
>> > or four strings on a modern instrument to within 1/4 cent accuracy
>> > (the limit of the gauge) in the time it takes to tune one string
>> > on a peg given a change in ambient temperature or humidity.
>> >
>> > I can see some advantage in movable frets, but I really see no
>> > advantage whatsoever in pegs, other than the historical significance.
>> > Historical accuracy comes with a very high pricetag in terms of
>> > time wasted that otherwise could be used for practicing.
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> > Marion
>> >
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Vance Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > Sent: Apr 4, 2005 12:22 PM
>> > To: lute list <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>, Caroline Usher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > Subject: Re: Newbie Question #2
>> >
>> > Dear Caroline:
>> >
>> > In the context this was written------Yes. When it comes to
> understanding
>> > the instrument, the music and the player/authors------No. In answered
> to
>> > the question we? If that means you wish to exclude yourself from that
>> > painting with a broad brush I would like to hear your thoughts. If you
>> > mean
>> > that I am caught up in historical accuracy, which incidentally is not
>> > so
>> > because I cannot afford it, and should have not used the word "We" I
>> > stand
>> > corrected. However from the way things tend to go on this list it
>> > would
>> > seem that most are very much centered on historical accuracy. However
>> > there
>> > is an historical accuracy not touched on and that is the limits of
>> > expediency in addressing some of the same problems that seem to plague
> us.
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Caroline Usher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > To: "lute list" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
>> > Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 12:04 PM
>> > Subject: Re: Newbie Question #2
>> >
>> >
>> >> At 11:29 AM 4/3/2005, Vance Wood wrote:
>> >> >I think sometimes we get too caught up in the historical accuracy of
>> >> >what
>> > it
>> >> >is we do.
>> >>
>> >> What you mean we, white man?
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>> >> ;-)
>> >> Caroline
>> >> Caroline Usher
>> >> DCMB Administrative Coordinator
>> >> 613-8155, Box 91000
>> >> B343 LSRC
>> >>
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