> I would think that the neck angle for violin and cello resulted from > the high bridge needed for bowing. With a very high bridge, if you > don't angle the neck back (especially with the strings under very high > tension) you have an increasingly difficult time fretting as you move > down the neck.
Dear Tim The big question is, double or single frets for violins and cellos? ;-) Just as a matter of detail, these fingerboards are convex at right angles to the strings, to corrspond more or less to the bridge curve, but the are slightly concave in the other plane. Concave to about a millimetre in the middle, but the curve has to be tested with a straight edge of about 2 inches to avoid any bumps that would cause the string to buzz when it is fretted on the virtual frets, if you see what I mean... Yours, Tony To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
