Re: Repair vs. buying new.

>Just from curiosity, how badly must a lute be damaged >to make repair more expensive than a new lute? Herb, Another classic question. It must depend on the lute, for example, if it was a priceless museum object, it could justify a quite expensive repair. If it is a piece of junk, what's the poi

Re: Built-in action?

Well said everyone, but I'd like to add that the difference between .90mm fret gut, and lets say 1.20mm ( both extremes) is only .30 mm that's not much! So really what can be done with fret gut is very small compared to the actual construction and built in set up of a lute. Some people adv

Dedillo

Dear Garry, You have made an interesting observation. I would like to know more about how the chap in the Mexican restaurant used his finger. For example, was he playing thumb-inside or thumb-outside? Dante Rosati has suggested that to play dedillo the right-hand thumb should support the index fi

RE: Built-in action?

Herb, There is more to it than that. Your description assumes that the top of the neck is in a straight line with the soundboard. Actually, on some lutes the neck tilts back a fraction. That brings the line of the strings closer to parallel with the neck to make the action more even from the top

RE: Built-in action?

Herb, There is more to it than that. Your description assumes that the top of the neck is in a straight line with the soundboard. Actually, on some lutes the neck tilts back a fraction. That brings the line of the strings closer to parallel with the neck to make the action more even from the top

Re: Built-in action?

Nope - the action is composed of the shallow triangle formed by strings, the soundboard and the neck. Unless I've missed something somexwhere... - Original Message - From: "Herbert Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 9:35 PM Subject: Built-in action? > > I have a

Re: Built-in action?

Herbert, this is an astute statement worthy of a physicist which I assume you are (I am one as well). :-) But there is at least a second dimension to take into account. In particular with baroque lutes, you got to deal with a more-or-less - for now I'd call it this a- hyperconical shape for

Built-in action?

I have a regard for the dedication and talent of luthiers, who build fine instruments from unformed chunks of wood. Nevertheless, I do not quite understand why they are credited with the action of a lute. The luthier's work merely determines where the _bottoms_ of the frets are. The action de

Re: Repair vs. buying new.

Just make it look like an accident... - Original Message - From: Tony Chalkley To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 12:16 PM Subject: Re: Repair vs. buying new. How badly would you like it to be damage

RE: Repair vs. buying new.

>That would partly depend on the quality of the lute and whether it could be brought back to its original condition. If it's a piece of junk, you would get to the break-even point fairly quickly. If it's a fine lute by a major luthier and had wonderful action and sound, you would probably repair

Re: Repair vs. buying new.

How badly would you like it to be damaged? I can send the boys round... - Original Message - From: "Herbert Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 6:54 PM Subject: Repair vs. buying new. > > Just from curiosity, how badly must a lute be damaged > to make repair mo

Repair vs. buying new.

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Re: dedillo

as in "proven wrong" or debunked as in "yelled at?" - bill --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > it's difficult for me to see the details properly > but > > following david hockney's "secret knowledge" > expose on > > the painterly use of prisms and mirrors, > Hockney's "expose" has already been deb