Probably the best answers to why the bracing is different on Lutes is explained in Lundberg's, book Historical Lute Construction.
---- Original Message ----- From: "Herbert Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 1:06 PM Subject: [LUTE] Bracing. > > A naive person watching the construction of a lute might say: > > The man makes the soundboard thin, presumeably to make it > more flexible, and then immediately glues braces to it, > making it stiffer again. One might almost think the braces > were to repair a mistake. > > Of course, most of us know that the placing of braces is an > exact and important process. But a 15-minute WWW search > produced very little on why guitar braces placed where they are, > and why braces are better than just leaving the soundboard wood > thicker, and nothing at all about lute braces, which, from photos > and diagrams I've seen, are rather different from guitar braces. > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
