At 02:52 PM 2/10/2008, Anthony Hind wrote: >It used to be said that all flat sound-boarded instruments, including >guitars, had a fairly short life span of about twenty years, before >they need to have their sound-boards replaced.
Failure at 20 years seems as myth-like as survival to 400 to me. I have original guitars and mandolins that see routine use with original soundboards dating to approx. 180 years old and there are far older ones in use out there. Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
