Allen Feldman Department of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University 239 Greene Street New York, NY 10003 tel: 212 998 5096 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Begin forwarded message: > From: Allen Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: January 15, 2008 3:28:56 PM EST > To: Kevin Lawton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [CITTERN] Re: Photographs > > These gears are made in Portugal and Brazil of varying quality the > best are as good as geared tuners I find and are turned with the > fingers not a watch key.. You use a special string winder with a > crank and a hook that makes a loop for the watch key tuning > mechanism: it takes a while to learn how to measure the string for > the loop; the strings for these usually come with a machine made > loop on one end.you attach it with the ready made loop behind the > bridge stretch it flat across the bridge and neck and measure where > the string will be bent for the hook on the loop winder, The hook > for the tuners is usually kept an 1/8 of an inch or less from the > nut to compensate. Too much slack when bending the string for the > loop turner and the string won't tune up too little and it won't > reach the tuning mechanism hook, it takes a practiced eye; The > address for the maker of the guitarra is a central Lisbon location. > > Allen Feldman > Department of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University > 239 Greene Street > New York, NY 10003 > tel: 212 998 5096 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > On Jan 15, 2008, at 11:20 AM, Kevin Lawton wrote: > >> That thing looks very much like an English Gittar to me ! >> I was wondering - with instruments like this which use a Preston- >> style 'watch key' tuning mechanism: getting hold of ready ready- >> made double-loop-ended strings of the right length is not exactly >> easy unless you are very fortunate. >> Is there any simple way anyone knows of for putting the loop ends >> onto the strings yourself ? >> Kevin. >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ---------------------------- >> Martina Rosenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: now >> they can be seen >> http://www.cetrapublishing.com/citterncafe/ >> >> Martina >> -- >> >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >> >> >> -- > --
