> Whilst visiting the one of the most charming cities in Italia, Cremona, where > Stradivari worked. I visited the museum that houses tools, and moulds etc. > from his workshop, I was hoping some energy from the master would be absorbed > into my DNA, my hopes were fulfilled. > > I noticed a lute template of the belly ( 11 course French lute) made from > thick paper, folded down the middle to from the centre line, indicating to > me, that lutes were originally conceived to be symmetrically prefect, and do > in fact have a clear centre line, contrary to what Lundberg says. > Has anyone had access to investigate these moulds of Stradivari ? There were > also very clear string spacing templates for the bridge and nut, as well as > pegbox and fingerboard templates. As well as 2 different guitar shapes, and > many different peghead templates. > Michael Thames Stewart Pollens, the Musical Instruments Conservator at the Metropolitan Museum has written a large article on the subject, which by now should be submitted to LSA Editors in the expanded version of the previously published one. Nice try, Thames, but this is not a job for mickey-mouse-luthiers. RT ______________ Roman M. Turovsky http://polyhymnion.org/swv
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