Can I add, most of the lutes I've studied differ in their profiles from plan view to elevation as well as having a non semi-circular cross section. Twisting is inevitable.
Yes one can build without twisting the ribs but then your plan and elevation profiles would half to be identical, which doesn't really occur in original lutes. I could be wrong, have been before. Chad -----Original Message----- From: David Van Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 6:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [LUTE-BUILDER] Re: Lute - Baroque Guitar In some cases, yes. Certainly theorbos have better projection when they have flattened cross-sections. And baroque lutes are noticeably non-circular in section. I think it's geometrically impossible to make these kind of shapes without twisting some of the ribs. David At 23:12 +0200 5/12/07, alexandros tzimeros wrote: >I think one can build a lute with no semi-circular cross-section, without >having to twist ribs. But why non semi-circular cross-section is that >important? Can anyone tell for sure if the lute playing behind the curtain >has a s.circular c. section or not? > -----Original Message----- >"But it's difficult (but not impossible if you build a jig for >each rib) to build the more complex shapes which are not >semi-circular in cross-section and only a few of the historic >surviving lutes are like that." > > > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- The Smokehouse, 6 Whitwell Road, Norwich, NR1 4HB England. Telephone: + 44 (0)1603 629899 Website: http://www.vanedwards.co.uk
