> From: David Kilpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 22:07:29 +0100 > To: "Roger E. Blumberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, cittern > <[email protected]> > Subject: [CITTERN] Re: Pedro Cabrals answer > > Roger E. Blumberg wrote: > >> >> >> yes, I did miss it. Thanks for pointing it out. So did Rob's instrument >> originally have a Rose? Doesn't he feel cheated without it, doesn't he miss >> something essential in his sound? >> >> >> > > You'd have to ask him that. I think he has always rather liked the > plain, grungy sort of beaten up look of his instrument. He reckons it > has an amazing sound, while many better preserved examples are not are > rich and full-toned as his. Removing the rose would tend, by increasing > the effective soundhole size, to boost treble a bit; the loss of the > extra vibrating bit of stamped brass is impossible to quantify. I have > never tried playing mine with the rose removed as I think it's important > to the structure and strength of the instrument. So I will never know > what it sounds like without one. > > Rob's instrument is much deeper and has a rounder body, and more > parallel front and back. With a metal rose I imagine it would have been > more 'boxy' than mine, a touch more banjo-like in tonal quality. It's > already more that way. But again, his strings are different, mine have > been a mixture of mandola and harpsichord wires, he's had some custom > made NRI strings from Segerman with real twisted basses. > > I do know that Rob has been happier with his own sound, for his Scottish > music, than the rather cheerier bright sound which my instrument has, > and Doc Rossi's as well. Rob also tuned very flat and slack for his > Flowers of the Forest CD recordings, giving a distinctive intonation > under finger pressure. But, he may have further ideas now, much time has > passed, and although he's not currently doing much guittar, only he can > tell you how it has changed for him - whether he has tried other > instruments etc. > > David
alrighty. Well, we'll see how long he can stay away ;-) and then I'll ask him. There's an instrument for sale at Pamela's --> no rose, £550 http://www.pamelasmusic.co.uk/images/Forsale/string/mandolins/L079fs.JPG http://www.pamelasmusic.co.uk/mandolins.htm Roger To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
