Yes, two different trees. Red cedar will be much softer. My music teacher (no
longer with us, unfortunately) had a lute built by Larry Lundy in the 70s that
had a red cedar top and I loved the sound of it. I have a red cedar soundboard
that I'm planning to put on a lute to try and duplicate that
Red cedar and red Spruce are two different trees. Both are native to
North America. red spruce (picea rubens) is also known by Adirondack
spruce and comes from, you guessed it; the Eastern part of North
America along the Adirondack range. Western red cedar (Thuja plicata)
is native t
Shouldn't red spruce be synonymous with red cedar?
I've heard of cedar topped lutes - from what I understand (And I really
don't understand much yet!), cedar can work well on smaller lutes, A,
B, C and D ren lutes.
Unless I'm getting this wrong and red spruce IS different?
My E
James,
To further confuse the issue, Northern Tonewoods offers Red Spruce soundboards.
http://www.hvgb.net/~tonewood/acousticguitar.htm
I'm in the middle of building an A lute with one of their soundboards. Tap tone
is very clear and bright. I don't know how the lute will sound, but it should
And then there's Hagen! Almost every ascending arpeggio turns around and
descends. Lots of a-m-i a-m-i going down. r
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To: Bernd Haegemann
Interesting RH problems arise in the "harp" style of one-note-per string
playing so common in chordal tuned lutes playing 18th century music. (i.e.,
Weiss, Bach, d-minor lute.)
I have had to do a lot of RH retraining to cope. Background has been
Renaissance lute and much earlier, classical guit
Thanks Nancy, Rocky, and Jose for your helpful suggestions.
When I "re-PDF" a graphics file that I imported a PDF to is when
things get fuzzy - even in printing! So, I tried saving PDF as a TIFF
and this looks awful on-screen but seems to print OK. Haven't tried
making a PDF out of that, yet
as it seems this didn't reach the list..
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Betreff: Arpeggio question
Datum: Thu, 17 May 2012 11:17:09 +0200
Von: Bernd Haegemann [1]
Kopie (CC): lute-cs.dartmouth.edu List [2],
baroque Lutelist [3]
Dear all,
sometimes we find in baroque lu
Thanks for your advice,
I've decided to go for Englemann. I'm going for grade 7 (Second down
from highest on their grade) which the timber supplier describes as
"Near perfection - very slow growth, the widest
growth ring approximately 2mm within the template area.
Very limited ac
