>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
I guess to you, Trovosky, Stadivari's paper is more sacred than an
actual Jauch, Schelle, or Frei, that most competent luthiers have access to.
I bet your favorite movie this year is Star Wars.
Sorry to give you the impression, I wanted to write a thesis on the
subject.
Hope you can quit your daytime job, maybe in this lifetime, if not the
next.
Michael Thames
www.ThamesClassicalGuitars.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roman Turovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Michael Thames" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Lute net"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 9:33 AM
Subject: Re: Stradivari lute?
> > 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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