>> 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. Competent luthiers won't touch you with a 10 foot pole.
> I bet your favorite movie this year is Star Wars. My favorite won't be out until August, I'm afraid....... And yours must be "Looney Tunes". > 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. I rather like my dayjob, and I've met some VERY interesting people there........ RT > >>> 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 ___________________________________________________________ $0 Web Hosting with up to 200MB web space, 1000 MB Transfer 10 Personalized POP and Web E-mail Accounts, and much more. Signup at www.doteasy.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
