> I have two questions -both related to Robert Lundberg's book on Historical > Lute Construction > First. In his Practicum 1, he shows the steps to making a lute mould. The > last photo in this chapter shows a mould completely smooth and rounded.
I think there's an intro to Lundberg's book (I could be conflating it with something I read on this list) where someone who had first-person experience seeing the way Lundberg made lutes commented that what they had seen was different from what was being put into the book. I think it's important to note that Lundberg's book is titled "Historical Lute Construction", not "How I Make Lutes". I believe that sometimes he was showing us what he thought the historical builders did, other times he was showing us what works. His untimely death left the book in a mishmash of those states, which the people at GAL did a damn fine job of editing into a useful book. But again, that book is not titled "Do These Things To Make A Lute". To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
