Hola Laura, you'll need to take the lute to a luthier. To reglue the bridge, the top must be taken off. This is beyond ordinary workmen.
And, as you will probably be aware off, this is quite a critical joint and you don't want somebody to botch with it. Good luck g On 08.07.2007, at 17:59, Laura wrote: > > ------=_NextPart_001_0002_01C7C15F.C992E650 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="us-ascii" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Hi! > > I've had my ren lute for 7 years, had no problems at all until > yesterday > night when it decided to "mute itself"... > The bridge cleanly separated from the body, spontaneously. No > previous sign > of being unglued, anything. > The bridge separated from the body cleanly, and didn't even splitted. > The luthier who made it is far from where I live, so I'll need to > evaluate > other person to fix it. > Could anyone tell me which is the best approach for fixing this > type of > problem, so I can talk to the repairmen with a minimum knowledge? > Is it necessary to separate the top? or just re-glueing the bridge > is ok? > thanks, > Laura > > snif.... > > > Laura Maschi > To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
