Tony
I did not even look at my lute (although I did begin to eye my
antique plane http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hoevl.jpg)
I was simply considering the fret gut diameters suggested by Martyn
and those on my lute (which are close to those Lundberg's average).
As Martyn seemed to be saying, smaller upper frets should allow
lowering the strings at the nut. However, perhaps as you imply, it
might also call for the lute to be set-up specifically for that.
I was, as usual, dreaming of the ideal lute that had such a perfect
action that you barely have to twitch your fingers to be able to
play, the secret of Dowland's great mastery of the lute, revealed.
Regards
Anthony
Le 14 mai 08 à 19:06, Tony Chalkley a écrit :
<snip>
Combined with what Tony just tells me in his message, I better put
away the plane with which I was just about to shave off a few
millimeters from my finger-board.
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Have you really got that much fingerboard? Mine are only about 2.5
mm. If I had much more, I would happily get out the plane, having
once taken a long straightish edge between the bottom of the nut an
the bottom of the bridge to see what the gap was at the joint
(obviously without the frets in place). Then again with the strings
off, and you know how much pull there is on the neck, igitur how
much you have to thin the fb at the nut before flattening it off
back up to the joint.
Nae bother ;-)
Anthony
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 12:54:06 +0000> To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu;
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Subject: [LUTE] Re: Fret diameters, a geometrical approach> > >
Thank you for this.> > When you say 'not to be taken literally',
I presume you mean because he was (through neccessity) obliged
to link the same size of two frets with just one gut lute
string, rather casting doubt on the general (small) size of the
frets. If he had wanted to imply thicker frets he could have
just as easily started with the 'Tenor' (5th course), but he
didn't.> > MH> > PS Incidentally the 'Other Necessary Obs...'
are by John D not Robert.> > > > > --- On Wed, 14/5/08, Gernot
Hilger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > > From: Gernot
Hilger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > Subject: [LUTE] Fret
diameters, a geometrical approach> > To: "lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Net" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>> > Date: Wednesday, 14 May, 2008,
1:39 PM>
> There has been some discussion about !
fret diameters lately.> > For those > > who might be interested,
I did some quick and dirty> > geometry with > > Excel and have
put this online> > (http://www.jsbach.mynetcologne.de/ > >
frets). The results come with no warranty, of course> > because
there may > > be some bugs hidden. Also, the effects of meantone>
> temperament are not > > yet included. These are anyway much
smaller than the> > effects of > > different fret diameter
strategies.> > > > The gist is that there are almost no
differences between> > different > > strategies except for the
Robert Dowland method which is> > clearly not > > to be taken
literally.> > > > Have fun> > g> > > > > > > > To get on or off
this list see list information at> > http:// www.cs.dartmouth.edu/
~wbc/lute-admin/index.html> > >
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