I don't think I disagree Martyn, you say "Martin's practice of thinning
at the bridge is probably to allow the string there to vibrate around
a clean take off point thus minimising frequency absorption (ie
damping)", I have used the expression "lowering impedance", ie
minimising
Hello Anthony,
I am fine, thank you. I havenât heard from you for a while, but itâs nice
to see you on our lute list again :)
Actually I meant KF strings. String ends have to be split (whittled if you
like), otherwise they are so stiff that tying them would be very difficult.
Also they
Thinning of a string will, of course, affect its flexibility where the
thinning occurs but the state of the remainder of the string (ie the
vast majority of it) remains unchanged and it is this which principally
produces the sound and thus the quality. As remarked earlier, thinning
