I would think that playing a plucked string instrument of some sort, if not necessarily the lute, would be essential for building a good instrument. Playing is the only way to appreciate how the fine tolerances in parameters like action and string spacing can make the difference between a good or unplayable instrument.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ben Cohen Attorney at Law Shughart Thomson & Kilroy 1050 Seventeenth Street Suite 2300 Denver, CO 80265 http://www.stklaw.com/ tel: 720-931-8155 fax: 720-228-2274 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Ehud Yaniv [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 10:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [LUTE-BUILDER] A question from a want to be lute builder. Hi, I am new here, having been a lurker previously. Now I am ready to start planning to build a lute. My question - is knowing how to play the lute essential to being successful in building? I have a musical background (7 years of sax and clarinet) and am now studying music theory and recorder. I have purchased the lute book published by GAL and both sets of plans by Van Edwards. I know that understanding the instrument as a player is important and would add insight to my building but is it essential? Any suggestions in the matter would be appreciated. Ehud PS: I assume that I would make more effort to play an instrument I built but also look at the lute as a worthy and beautiful object in and of itself. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html ********************PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL******************** This electronic message transmission and any files transmitted with it, are a communication from the law firm of Shughart Thomson & Kilroy, P.C. This message contains information protected by the attorney/client privilege and is confidential or otherwise the exclusive property of the intended recipient or Shughart Thomson & Kilroy. This information is solely for the use of the individual or entity that is the intended recipient. If you are not the designated recipient, or the person responsible for delivering the communication to its intended recipient, please be aware that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please notify by telephone (816-421-3355), collect or by electronic mail (<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] ) and promptly destroy the original transmission. Thank you for your assistance. NOTICE: The Missouri Bar and Missouri Supreme Court require all Missouri attorneys to notify e-mail recipients that e-mail is not a secure method of communication, that it may be copied and held by any computer through which it passes, and persons not participating in the communication may intercept the communication. Should you wish to discontinue this method of communication, please advise, and no further e-mail communication will be sent.
