Am Samstag, 13. Juni 2020 13:37 CEST, Jörg Hilbert <hilbert.jo...@t-online.de> schrieb: > Dear collected wisdom,
Hello Jörg, > there are quite a lot of different ideas of how to vanish lute tops (or not). > How was it with the old instruments? Were they always/sometimes/never > vanished? What do we really know? If you really want to vanish your lute top then I'd suggest the use of a belt grinder ... ;-) But if instead you want to arnish your lute there are several options. "What do we really know"? Unfortunatela, very little, few if any lute tops survived unmodified, so what we see toady might not be what the original had when it was sold. There seems to be some evidence that earlier (16th century) lutes just had a covering of egg white to protect the top. Cheers, RalfD > Thanks > Jörg > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- Ralf Mattes Hochschule für Musik Freiburg Projektleitung HISinOne Schwarzwaldstr. 141, D-79102 Freiburg http://www.mh-freiburg.de
