Most of my frets are slanted. I actually have 12. Even the top one covers 6 courses. It is set to have the 1 - 6 octave in tune. The whole instrument plays reasonably well in tune. It is single strung throughout.
At 02:57 AM 9/1/2006, you wrote: Most of my frets are slanted. I actually have 12. Even the top one covers 6 courses. It is set to have the 1 - 6 octave in tune. The whole instrument plays reasonably well in tune. It is single strung throughout. At 02:57 AM 9/1/2006, you wrote: >On Friday 01 September 2006 03:31, you wrote: > >dear all, >Just a question what came to mind reading the mails on frets. >My theorbo with gutstrings needs to have the frets with an angle to the >strings to get a correct tone. I.e. the fret needs to be shifted in the >direction of the pegbox on the side where you look, while at the side of the >handpalm they stay at the original location, starting with fret no 3. It's >not very much, but the only one I know who has the same experience is David. >Do others have the same experience on their instruments? >Taco www3.sympatico.ca/echapin -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.7/435 - Release Date: 8/31/2006 To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
