Michael Thames wrote: > One more example would be a cello or violin which has an EXTREME neck angle, > this doesn't effect the action, now does it.
Of course it does. That's why the bridges on those instruments have to be so high: if they weren't the strings would lie on (or slide off the sides of) the fingerboard. If you were to lower the neck angle on a cello a few degrees, the action up the fingerboard would be impossibly high. HP To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html