Pat's opinion re the luthier's fault.
RT
On 3/23/2019 7:01 PM, howard posner wrote:
What do you base that conclusion on?
Did the lute formerly have a lighter neck?
On Mar 23, 2019, at 3:16 PM, r.turov...@gmail.com wrote:
One of my lutes is neck-heavy, and it definitely has been detrimental to its
sound.
RT
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On Mar 23, 2019, at 5:48 PM, yuval.dvo...@posteo.de wrote:
My lute builder, Dieter Schossig, is actually a physicist, and he also told me
about this. It's about the energy that gets lost in the neck, instead of
reinforcing the sound.
Am 23.03.2019 22:29 schrieb John Mardinly:
Some guitar makers have also believed that neck stiffness improves the
sound. Ramirez 1A guitars have a significant graphite-epoxy inset along
the neck to stiffen it, and that is said to be significant in a neck
that is only 66.7cm.
A. John Mardinly, Ph.D., P.E.
On Mar 23, 2019, at 2:22 PM, howard posner <[1]howardpos...@ca.rr.com>
wrote:
On Mar 23, 2019, at 5:43 AM, Luca Manassero <[2]l...@manassero.net>
wrote:
I‘m about to ask him to rebuild the long neck of my big Hasenfuss
theorbo, as the instrument has a fantastic voice, but Hasenfuss
built a
very heavy long neck, so it is really painful to homd during
concerts.
A lighter neck should solve the issue.
All the best,
Luca
Consider that the heavy neck may be part of what makes the fantastic
voice. I've been told that a neck that's heavy, and therefore does not
vibrate, increases resonance because a vibrating neck has a damping
effect on the body of the instrument. I don't recall whether Hendrik
told me that, or it was volunteered by someone else, and I can't vouch
for its accuracy as a matter of acoustical science.
But I can tell you that the heavy neck on my Hasenfuss theorbo was
never a problem because I never held the instrument while I played it.
I just used a strap, and ran a leather or fake-leather bootlace from
the bridge-end of the instrument and sat on it (the lace, NOT the
instrument). I could take my hands off the theorbo completely.
Indeed, listeners may have preferred it when I did.
And it's a lot cheaper than rebuilding the neck.
H
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