On May 2, 2007, at 5:29 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Museum instruments may have been cleaned and/or refinished to make > them > 'presentable'. Some may have new sound boards, ones that might > never have > been played on.
Absolutely, and in the case of an original soundboard the wood may have darkened enough (over the centuries...?) to obscure any single smudge. David Rastall [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rastallmusic.com -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html