>It say something about the persistence of our expectations about musical instruments that many solid body electric guitars are quite ostentatiously built out of wood. Somehow we expect stringed instruments to look that way.
Tim > > >---- Original Message ---- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lute@cs.dartmouth.edu, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Gone 'the whole hog'! >Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 11:34:22 -0400 > >>Bill, >> >>Given that some old lutes were made of materials like ivory I can >see no >>reason that a graphite resin couldn't make a lute bowl that would >sound >>quite well - but somehow the aesthetics don't appeal to me. Yet >given the >>abilities of the space age types to concoct almost any internal >structure >>even the soundboard might be possible with synthetics - but I'm not >ready >>for it. >> >>Best, Jon >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "bill kilpatrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: "Ron Fletcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; >"lute@cs.dartmouth.edu" >><Lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> >>Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 12:36 PM >>Subject: Re: Gone 'the whole hog'! >> >> >>> check out www.rainsong.com in hawaii. they make 100% >>> graphite resin guitars with the "classic" graphite >>> sound. it's a beautiful building material - a solid >>> graphite lute of one-piece construction can't be far >>> off. i have a crafter mandolin with a polyresin bowl >>> (similar in principle to an ovation guitar) and it >>> sounds fabulous. >> >> >> >>To get on or off this list see list information at >>http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >>
