All, Again, sorry to bother with something so mercantile but there have been numerous inquiries on the Veheula offered so it is more efficient to answer on the list rather than a lot of emails.
1. The mensur is 66cm. 2. On tuning, the instrument has 6 double courses. I'm not into veheula so have not paid much attention to the tuning. I've been told that many tune it like a 6 crs lute and play the lute tab directly on it while other tunings are listed online which show a sort of re-entrant tuning. Also, it is easy to confuse the historical Veheula with the "Viheula" which is apparently used by Mariachi bands. There's lots of articles on that instrument and, being unfamiliar with it, I don't know how much relevance there is to the historical instrument. 3. The soundboard looks to be spruce but one question whether it is cedar is interesting. On examination it does have a slight reddish tint which I took to be age and a light blond shellac. So, rather than standing firm and being wrong, the soundboard is either German Spruce with a light blond varnish aged, or, it is cedar (hopefully Spanish) with little or no finish other than wax. Regardless, the board sounds very nice. I've corrected the web page to reflect the string length, thanks for your patience: http://robdorsey.com/forsale.htm Rob Dorsey, luthier Florence, KY USA http://RobDorsey.com -----Original Message----- From: Gregory C Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2006 8:17 AM To: Rob Dorsey Subject: Re: [LUTE] Nice Veheula for sale Rob, Could you tell me what the string-length is? To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
