> From: "Roger E. Blumberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 17:56:01 -0700 > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: cittern <[email protected]> > Subject: [CITTERN] Re: Pedro Cabrals answer > > >> From: David Kilpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >> Roger E. Blumberg wrote: >>> Sounds purdy. I have seen, and love, that red. I wouldn't have guessed a >>> metal rose. > >> The metal rose is an essential part of the sound. It has been lost on >> many surviving guittars. Mine is complete and original. The sound it >> produces is a bit like a resonator, adding sustained vibration and >> connecting across the soundhole with an active element. If it gets >> loose, it buzzes like mad. I have to push a section down to seat it >> firmly sometimes and stop the vibration. The metal rose, like the >> Preston tuner, is part of the unique design of the English guittar. >> Plenty of citterns have no rose, or a wooden pattern, but only the >> English guittar has a cast brass rose mounted in an ivory or bone rim - >> as far as I know. > > > that's a very interesting and unexpected fine-point (albeit key-point). > Thank you. I just looked again at Ron's Preston. http://fernandezmusic.com/Images/Andrade%26Preston.gif That really is a substantial chuck of metal! I do see how it would impact the sound. Wonder why the Portuguese neglected to copy that most important bit from the English models (if that's indeed where they got their inspiration from). Do you have a picture of yours I could see? (Ron's is in pretty bad shape). Thanks Roger To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
