> At 10:29 AM 4/20/2005, Roman Turovsky wrote: >> The differences between slender lutes's shells like Schelle, Tielke, Frei >> are so visually insignificant, that luthiers do as they please with their >> nomenclatures. And the best ones' designs are original rather than slavish >> copies. > > > This topic is somewhat interesting to me. At what point does an original > design cease to be a reproduction of an early instrument and become > something new? It doesn't have to be something new. Putting a Jauch pegbox on a Hoffmann shell is insufficiently radical to qualify as new, even if it is a definite improvement.
When will big, flat-backed lutes built for renaissance > tuning and incorporating Kasha/Schneider bracing systems and bridge designs > sweep the lute world? Why not use geared tuners? Etc? Has been exhaustively discussed. Let's not whip this beached salmon back to life. RT To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
