Göran and I agreed to share this with the list. Mathias
Göran wrote: Yes, but you were envisioning some impossible contraption with the metal strings on the inside of the lute if I understood you correctly. A lute with sympathetic strings seems more plausible, although their tension could constitute a problem for the relatively delicate lute top. But they also experimented with a buzzing sound in a different way, as recently discussed on this forum. Very irritating to my ears! Göran On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 12:01 PM Mathias Rösel <[1]mathias.roe...@t-online.de> replied: I cannot say how impossible sympathetic metal strings on the inside of a lute really are. I simply don't know the experiment that Mersenne apparently was referring to. I imagine, though, that the tension of those metal strings may be rather low. Enhancement of sound and harmony by resonance strings seems to have been an 17^th century idea that took several shapes. For lute instruments, one is the angélique, another may be the torban. For bowed instruments, the viola d'amore, the baryton and the nyckelharpa can be named. Mathias -- References 1. mailto:mathias.roe...@t-online.de To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
