Dear Bruno Looking at the instruments of the Cité de la Musique seems to show that ivory or bone on the bridge goes together with the same decorations on the fingerboard and elsewhere, http://tinyurl.com/nlvpy32 Thus unlikely to be acoustic in intention. Regards Anthony
Sent from my iPhone > On 26 juil. 2014, at 00:32, Bruno Correia <bruno.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear Daniel, > This thin slice of bone is precisely what I was referring to. I'm sure > you have seen many lutes with these cap. > All the best. > 2014-07-25 18:44 GMT-03:00 Dan Winheld <[1]dwinh...@lmi.net>: > > Never had a bone on any of my lute bridges (except the guitar saddle > bone on my first guitary-semi-lute). I have never seen a bone on any > lute bridge either. A thin slice of bone, ivory, or hard wood seems > like a good idea to limit string wear on the top edges of a bridge, > so long as it does not increase mass to the extent of degrading the > sound. Of course, as a player & not a luthier I'm sure I haven't all > the lutes out there. Maybe some Tielke extravaganza has bone or > ivory bridge decoration. > What particular lutes have you seen with this feature? Any pictures? > Dan > > -- > Bruno Figueiredo > A > Pesquisador autA'nomo da prA!tica e interpretaAS:A-L-o > historicamente informada no alaA-ode e teorba. > Doutor em PrA!ticas InterpretativasA pela > Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. > > -- > > References > > 1. mailto:dwinh...@lmi.net > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
