On Jul 7, 2008, at 8:46 AM, William Brohinsky wrote: > Folks, please forgive me, and let this subject drop, now? I had no > intention > of stubbing toes, firing up rwars, or causing people to point fingers. > > It is now obvious to me that I did not make the case for what I > want to do > clearly enough. It is also clear that, this request has no chance > of bearing > fruit.
Well, not to be huffy, but I thought my advice was to the point, assuming I understood your question correctly. Other listers seem to have assumed that you intended to get a music performance degree rather than an engineering degree, presumably because they are are themselves professional musicians and are inclined to think that way, or because they don't know what "EE" means (you should have spelled that out), or both. Given the misunderstanding, their advice was reasonable and friendly, if irrelevant. I still think you should just make your practice pad resemble the drum you intend to play, insofar as it's practical. It may not be practical; it could result in an instrument that's too far from the real world to be useful. I suspect converting a seven-course instrument into a 14-course instrument may leave you with string spacing that only a gibbon could squeeze its fingers into, even though the actual number of strings is the same, but that suspicion is grounded in ignorance. If you decide that's what you want to do, you should pose specific questions, including specific measurements, our cyberbuddies that . Keep in mind also that if you intend to play UConn's theorboed whatever in an ensemble rather than playing solo music, it is not critical that you be able to manage all the deep basses at first, or indeed at all. You'll rarely find written notes that require a course below the ninth or tenth. So building a practice pad for the purpose of learning to manage 14 courses may be more work than it's worth. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
