On Nov 17, 2007, at 9:34 PM, Michael Bocchicchio wrote: > With three different tags inside, do we know beyond the shadow of > a doubt that the whole soundboard was not remade in the later half > of the 17th century? -- It was a common practice. I saw no > discussion of that in the thread, only that there was no no sign > of a "J" bar.
Jakob Lindberg says dendrochronology (a comparison of tree rings in the wood with a sort of tree-ring history database) has dated the soundboard wood to between 1418 and 1560. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
