Yes - absolutely true - anything could have happened - to some of them, even most of them, but all of them?
JM On 5/2/07 7:00 PM, "David Rastall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 2, 2007, at 5:29 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Museum instruments may have been cleaned and/or refinished to make >> them >> 'presentable'. Some may have new sound boards, ones that might >> never have >> been played on. > > Absolutely, and in the case of an original soundboard the wood may > have darkened enough (over the centuries...?) to obscure any single > smudge. > > David Rastall > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.rastallmusic.com > > > > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
