Hello Michael, Am 10.02.2008 um 19:10 schrieb Michael Muskett:
This sounds like a foolish pretension
I wrote
aiming for "historical correct" sound
to aim for something is not exactly pretending to have it. Nobody I hope pretends to know how a 1300s instrument sounds like. But as I understood some people aim for hearing the sound of something made the way we know a maker in this time could have made it.
because no one can possibly know what a 13th cent instrument sounded like.
my words. This applies to all voices trained and instruments built to serve for playing music from medieval manuscripts, and this applies to all perfomances of medieval music today.
best thing is to make one of a practical size and fit it with an internal sound board. [...] Many string instruments of the time had skin 'soundboards', but this seems unlikely in a box construction.
the whole thread is on Chris' efforts to make an instrument he described earlier in the thread, and its not the box type. And even if one makes a box with an internal soundboard, the soundboard needs to be good and in case of going for the real authentic it should be blade split, not sawn, because this was period technique.
By the way, its no magic to get a good box with an quality internal soundboard, they are on offer by some makers. I owned one by Wolfgang Lobisser, archaeologist, woodwork expert and hurdy-gurdy maker more than 15 years ago. It had a nice strong sound, very nice craftmanship. I sold it because it was to heavy (~2.5kg) for my purpose.
S. --- have a look at: http://hurdygurdywiki.wiki-site.com http://drehleierwiki.wiki-site.com --- my site: http://simonwascher.info
