At 09:26 AM 8/19/2005, Wayne Cripps wrote: > > From: Alain Veylit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > I think that unfortunately the author's English gets in the way > > sometimes, for instance when the 17th century lute neck is described as > > decorated with "mother of toilet sit". Would that be mother of pearl? > > Alain > > > >Mother of Toilet Seat, MOTS for short, is a plastic imitation >mother of pearl. It was really popular in the 1920's when it was >an exciting new thing, and has been used since then for >decoration and inlay on not so special instruments (like those >made by Gibson in the 70's)
Gibson even did whole fingerboards of the stuff. Blecchhh! Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
