[LUTE-BUILDER] Re: rose opening

2009-11-24 Thread michael fedchenko
Greetings to all makers! One day I made vihuela with rose not connekted with the top.It was glued to additional bars that was attached to the body.It is possible to say that rose opening was full.I was very satisfied by the sound.May be some day I will make the same with the lut

[LUTE-BUILDER] Re: rose opening

2009-11-17 Thread Santiago Ramos-Collado
-BUILDER] Re: rose opening A: "julien stryjak luthier" Cc: lute-buil...@cs.dartmouth.edu Fecha: martes, 17 noviembre, 2009, 12:29 pm >Is there an easy and simple method to measure or calculate this >surface? (I'm not talking about some har

[LUTE-BUILDER] Re: rose opening

2009-11-17 Thread julien stryjak luthier
Oh, thanks to everybody, there's some interesting ideas, i'll try to test that on the workbench !! All the best julien Julien Stryjak - Luthier Luths et instruments à cordes anciens 17 rue Sleidan, F-67000 STRASBOURG 00 33 (0)3 88 45 05 87 www.julienstryjak.com To get on or off this li

[LUTE-BUILDER] Re: rose opening

2009-11-17 Thread demery
>Is there an easy and simple method to measure or calculate this >surface? (I'm not talking about some hard computer program or complex >mathematical formula ...we're lute makers after all ...) you might try placing the soundboard on a sheet of graph paper, photograph it and count the

[LUTE-BUILDER] Re: rose opening

2009-11-17 Thread demery
>Hi all, > >I was just wondering if anybody knows how to measure the opening >surface of a lute rosette ? Easy using software like photoshop, same proceedure is used to measure leaf surface area and estimate damage to brain coral as seen in tomographic slices. take a digital photo wh

[LUTE-BUILDER] Re: rose opening

2009-11-17 Thread 7443824
>I was just wondering if anybody knows how to measure the opening surface of a lute rosette ? >Julien Stryjak Luthier Hello Julien: First idea: If you have access to a sensitive balance and the material from which the rosette is made, weigh a circle of the uncut material th

[LUTE-BUILDER] Re: rose opening

2009-11-17 Thread Arthur Robb
Julien, A scientist would estimate. Examine one quarter of the rose and count the openings. Give a best guess for the average size of the hole in that quarter, in square mm. Opening = average size x number of holes in quarter x 4. What would be really interesting would be to kn