----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Shepherd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 9:02 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: strings: direction of vibration?
> ... On the other hand it could just be another example of the > old makers working very quickly and even sloppily, taking care only for > the important aspects of the work and not being (as we tend to be) > obsessed by right angles and straight lines. I think of the 1592 Venere > lute in Bologna - a very beautiful, decorated instrument where the > pegbox is glued on at the crazy angle (i.e., the centre line of the > pegbox is nowhere near parallel with the centre line of the neck). Some > things just don't matter. How true indeed this is! Alexander To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
