Only just got round to checking this site. To be fair to them, they're not "luting up" guitars as much as they are trying to improve on those black plastic tincan cover things that are meant to stop feedback. A more lutey insert could look out of place on a Dreadnought, and I'm not sure that parchment would solve the feedback - ? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eugene C. Braig IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ed Durbrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "lute list" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 7:51 PM Subject: Re: lute hole
> At 11:56 AM 5/27/2005, Ed Durbrow wrote: > >Turn your guitar hole into a lute rose. > >http://www.soundonsound.com/news?NewsID=7585 > > > These guys have been around for a great long time. I once called to probe > on their capabilities to reproduce historic, inset roses. They can't; what > you see is about the finest resolution they can offer. A little coarse for > my taste and mighty anachronistic in a modern steel-strung guitar. For > reproductions of good quality, I favor the work of Elena Dal Cortivo: > <http://www.parchmentroses.com/>. > > Eugene > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > >
