This would be more apparent on less expensive instruments. Good
Ebony can be worn away, but it takes a lot longer, and inexpensive
instruments often have softer wood fingerboards - Rosewood (which is
pretty hard, but not as hard as good Ebony) or, in the worst cases,
Maple that has been stained black.
Chuck
On Sep 2, 2006, at 2:40 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 16 Aug 2006 at 22:18, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
As to the difference of fiddler and violinist
I'm not sure why this message from the middle of August just came
through, but it gives me the opportunity to follow up on the
fiddle/violin conversation.
I was home visiting family last weekend, and my mother showed me her
great grandfather's fiddle, which she had found in the attic of my
grnadmother's house after she passed away. It was a cheap thing,
probably from Montgomery Ward or Sears, but the fingerboard showed
exactly what Kim had said -- only the first two or three positions
had ever been used, as the rest of the fingerboard was uniformly
black and the first few positions were worn through (with non-worn
strips under the strings).
So, it seems that what Kim had observed on the fiddle he was looking
at must have been pretty common, despite the protestations of many on
this list to the contrary.
--
David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com
David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/
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