It may be from places where you are consistantly touching the wood, either where you anchor your little finger, right hand, or where the left hand tends to touch the sound board in the higher registers, or where you may tend to occassionally rest your chin or cheek on the top of the top side of the Lute. If your problem is not in one or all of these areas it may just be the nature of the wood. Usually this type of thing is caused by the grain raising, and this is usually caused by an imbalance of moisture accross the sound board. It should not be a problem as long as the wood does not split.
VW ----- Original Message ----- From: "Herbert Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 10:53 AM Subject: [LUTE] Grain texture on soundboard. > > In some areas of my soundboard the grain of the wood can > be felt as slighly raised ridges. > > In other areas, the grain, though visually apparent, > cannot be felt. > > Is this discrepancy due to an inherent difference > in the wood, or is it due to the manner in which the lute > was built? > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
