Excellent observations, Martin.
I agree, in that I have a few instruments that are 20 + years old, and they
seem too have improved with age all of them. They seem to have
improved depth sweetness of tone, which in my book is quite desirable.
Does anyone have ideas about the proper way to
Before I bought my instrument, I played an instructors lute that he rarely
used, he was more of a guitarist. But he constantly said that since I was
playing the instrument, the lute just sounded better as a whole. I was using it
every day for a couple hours for two months;he'd just pick it up
On Mar 17, 2007, at 6:56 AM, Herbert Ward wrote:
I've heard that lutes, due to the thinness of the wood
in their soundboard, do not improve with age like
violins, and that, in fact, an old lute will have an
OK bass and treble, but be weak in the middle courses.
After hearing Jacob Lindberg's
On Mar 16, 2007, at 5:56 PM, Herbert Ward wrote:
I've heard that lutes, due to the thinness of the wood
in their soundboard, do not improve with age like
violins, and that, in fact, an old lute will have an
OK bass and treble, but be weak in the middle courses.
I'm sure that depends on a lot
