At 11:05 AM 4/20/2005, Roman Turovsky wrote: > >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.
I know it has, and I am not remotely interested in a Kasha lute with geared tuners, but how is changing the profile or air volume of a soundbox without precedent, even if slight, different than any of the more radical absurdities I've listed? I guess I'm asking how much departure is too much. (If the minutiae have been hammered out in the past, forgive me; I tend to delete things unread after a topic has descended into squabbling.) ...And it really isn't that pressing to me; play what you like and call it what it is. I'd call the Larson instruments to which I'd linked "mandolino" in a general sense and I'd enjoy playing them, but I would not claim them to be a reproduction of anything at all. Best, Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
