>>a disc of finely tooled copper might also work - make your baroque guitar into a mini-resonator!
Can I make my lute into a dobro by similar means? Slide lute! What kind of bottleneck would be recommended for authentic technique? ;^) Regards, Leonard Williams ============================================================ From: bill kilpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2004/11/25 Thu AM 12:44:49 EST To: Candace Magner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Roses in late 16th - early 17th century vihuelas --- Candace Magner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone ever seen/used/made a 'removable' rose, > that would fit into the soundhole but could be taken out? online luthier suppliers have roses but nothing as attractive as the ones cited in alexander's article. the idea of making a removeable rose has interested me as well. a slightly recessed, multi-layered parchment or thin plywood rose might be suitable with a thin, ring-shaped "washer" of wood to keep it in place. a disc of finely tooled copper might also work - make your baroque guitar into a mini-resonator! re tuning: do you have to thread your strings through the sound board (and bridge, presumably) from the inside? - bill ===== "and thus i made...a small vihuela from the shell of a creepy crawly..." - Don Gonzalo de Guerrero (1512), "Historias de la Conquista del Mayab" by Fra Joseph of San Buenaventura. go to: http://www.charango.cl/paginas/quieninvento.htm ___________________________________________________________ ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html ============================================================
