On Sep 24, 2007, at 1:57 AM, Anthony Hind wrote: > Sean and Dana > I think you must both be correct (in a way). I have not experimented > this, but in my mind I see myself stretching a piece of rubber band > held between two fingers of both hands,. > In between the hands the rubber band will become thinner, but on the > other side of the fingers, there is no lengthening, and therefore it > should remain the same, too thick to go through the bridge hole. > You perhaps need to pass another stiff thin string through the bridge > hole, and use that to pull the string through (so that it is > stretched from tip to toe). > > It does seem complicated, so perhaps the string was shorter than the > lute, but not quite as short as his gesture implied. > > However, Charles Besnaiou does have a few tricks up his sleeves, such > as making nylgut ropes to replace wire wounds, and attaching them > with one or two of the strands, so as not to have to widen the bridge > hole. >
Dear Anthony, Maybe I'm very short of vision here. Sending another smaller string through sounds good till I imagine connecting it to the real string: A knot, however grasped, usually makes it larger. And despite my feeble attempt at humor I can't think of how to compress the end diameter as though it were under tension. But I've been surprised before and I'm sure there are tricks or tools that have so far escaped me. tout le best, Sean To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
