I will be playing in the czech republic later that year. If there are closer details about the whereabouts I would be willing to take a closer look at the instrument (take additional photos and make some measurements). But I would need a contact. Hello Wayne - would you have such a contact?
Best Thomas Am Sonntag, 17. April 2005 16:18 schrieben Sie: > require additional photographs (close-ups of > the bridge and the nuts) or a look at the instrument in person, but it > does seem like it could be played as an 11-course in transitional or > d-minor tuning (top two courses single) with at most a redrilling of a > few holes in the bridge (they may be already present) and maybe one > additional groove in the fingerboard nut to space a single second course > to your liking. The rake of the pegbox looks too shallow to allow for a > treble rider to be glued on to add a single first string in addition to > those already present. -- Thomas Schall Niederhofheimer Weg 3 D-65843 Sulzbach 06196/74519 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html