----- Original Message ----- From: David Rastall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, May 2, 2007 7:00 pm Subject: [LUTE] Re: Another beginner's question
> 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. Sorry, I don't own any original 17th-c. lutes, but my 19th-c. guitar carries a very definite dirty streak where the pinkie was dragged along the soundboard. Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
