> From: ron fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 12:08:25 -0700 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [CITTERN] A little more on the Andrade guitar > > > Your red flags . . .
Ron (and others); Do you know of any other examples of said "old style end-pins" on instruments such as yours, and dated such as yours? http://fernandezmusic.com/Images/Andrade%20end%20pins.gif I've seen something similar on some 18th century instruments, small ivory end-pins on wire-strung instruments, but that's about it (and I admit to having less knowledge of 18th and 19th cent examples than perhaps I should -- I spend more time rooting around the 15th and 16th centuries). Is it possible that someone lost the tail piece (some kind of affixing hardware large or small) from your instrument long ago and then simply drilled 12 holes in the butt and grabbed a handful of mismatched old guitar bridge-pins and called it "fixed"? This doesn't look professional to me. I can even see the expected cuts in the soft white binding as the strings wrap up over the edge. There's no edge protection nor hole reinforcement of any kind (at least externally) for the end pins, and even the hole pattern looks a bit uneven to me. sorry, I hate to do this to you, but like I said, nothing looks right to me about this instrument (still). I'll eat crow if I have to, I'm learning too (and I hope not at your expense), but Lord, how many red flags make a warning, I ask? Roger To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
