Ed, These were barely visible, and finally disappeared completely.
There was no difficulty in moving the frets.
However, I am sure they were not set for angled fretting.
This thread seems very interesting, as gradually we are hearing
different methods of acheiving fairly similar results;
and also hearing that it is not necessarily as easy as some pretend
when they brieze-in with their lute exotically set
and an air of having just done this by ear in the lift on the way up.
I now feel it is alright if I struggle a little in trying to acheive
a good result.
Anthony
Le 22 mai 08 à 14:06, Ed Durbrow a écrit :
On May 22, 2008, at 5:24 PM, Anthony Hind wrote:
Indeed, at one time my student lute
was set up by Mathias Durvie with slight grooving to allow the player
to slide the frets from eq to one form of meantone (no tastini or
double frets however). I could easily hear the difference. This
seemed to be his standard practice, as I certainly did not ask for
it. Strangely, I have never noticed this on any other lutes.
I once made the mistake of getting a lute repaired by a guitar maker.
He did me the "favor" of putting in little notches on the edges of
the fretboard so the frets wouldn't move out of EQ.
Ed Durbrow
Saitama, Japan
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http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/
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