"Edward Martin" <e...@gamutstrings.com> schrieb: > Yes, good wood is not cheap. You mentioned > spruce... I received my 11-course lute a week > ago! It had an accident, and the belly had been > destroyed. So, Dan Larson put a new top on it. > It is spruce from New England, known as > Adirondack spruce, or red spruce, or Appalacian > spruce. I have never heard of Adirondack used on a lute, prior to this one. > The results are beautiful! The treble is incredibly clear, singing.
Yes, I read the thread with great interest. Also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picea_rubens and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonewood#Topwoods_.28soundboard.29 have it that picea rubens is an excellent tonewood for soundboards. European luthiers don't use it as far as I'm aware, and I won't make it over the pond,unfortunately, in the near future so as to listen to your playing. Mathias > At 07:45 PM 10/1/2009, Mathias Rösel wrote: > >Yew for bowls e. g. is quite expensive in Old Europe as it was almost > >extinguished when yew was required for military bows. Good spruce is > >rare and not exactly cheap. Ebony for necks and fretboards still is > >exotic woods, rare and expensive, if I'm not mistaken. So, a good HIP > >lute cannot be cheap. But lutes still are cheap, compared to celli. > > > >My farthing FWIW > > > >Mathias > > > >"Jaros³aw Lipski" <jaroslawlip...@wp.pl> schrieb: > > > Well, it may be possible that some people > > will buy such a lute, but we have > > > to ask what is the reason for doing so. The > > lute is not only a device. I can > > > only quote Ernst Gottlieb Baron (1727) who says in his "Study of the > > > lute": > > > "I once saw at Herr Hoffman's in Leipzig an old lute of solid copper, > > > heavily gilded on the back with many figures > > etched upon it, and the top was > > > of black ebony. But when I examined the tone, I found that this instrument > > > sounded more like an old pot than a true lute. Whoever wishes to have a > > > good-sounding instrument will choose good and appropriate wood." > > > > > > Best > > > > > > Jaroslaw Lipski > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Mustafa Umut Sarac" <mustafaumutsa...@gmail.com> > > > To: "howard posner" <howardpos...@ca.rr.com> > > > Cc: <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> > > > Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 11:24 PM > > > Subject: [LUTE] Re: : Cost of a lute? > > > > > > > > > > There are some people wastes 50 years to create their art designs > > > > cheapest , no need to cnc lathes and enviromentally friendly. > > > > > > > > I gave my 25 years to studying this kind of stuff. > > > > > > > > If you look to Luigi Colani , he creates whatever he wants with hot > > > > wire cut foam. > > > > > > > > I think this is the cheapest , fastest , less complex , and using > > > > least > > > > electric technology. > > > > > > > > And no noise for home studios in the apartments > > > > > > > > Only you have to do is to create a moving hot wire inside foam. > > > > > > > > Than you fill the cut foam with polyester slowly , and seal the foam. > > > > There would be no nasty fume. > > > > > > > > You can fill the very thin foam cut with a syringe very slowly. > > > > > > > > I asked to produce a guitar with rapid production , rapid prototyping > > > > methods and it costs 3000 dollars without a neck . This is not > > > > intelligent. > > > > > > > > Hot wire FOAM CUT is the best > > > > > > > > How you will produce the back , one by one and assembling the foams > > > > together precisely and fill with epoxy. > > > > > > > > I am seriously thinking to produce Lutes with this technology. > > > > > > > > You can produce carbon composites with adding graphite carbon powder > > > > in > > > > to the polymer ! > > > > > > > > It is like using saw and a wood. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Best , > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Mustafa Umut Sarac > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Istanbul > > > > > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at > >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > >No virus found in this incoming message. > >Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > >Version: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.14.2/2408 > >- Release Date: 10/01/09 18:23:00 > > > > Edward Martin > 2817 East 2nd Street > Duluth, Minnesota 55812 > e-mail: e...@gamutstrings.com > voice: (218) 728-1202 > http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1660298871&ref=name > http://www.myspace.com/edslute > > > -- Viele Grüße Mathias Rösel http://mathiasroesel.livejournal.com http://www.myspace.com/mathiasroesel