These are the most revolutionary views on the lute soundboard acoustics
I've ever come across! J-bar breaking the fundamental ... fan barring
allows fundamentals to sound unbroken ... what on earth does that all
mean? Could you please give the exact quote if possible and / or page
number.
AB
Mathias Rösel wrote:
"Anthony Hind" <[email protected]> schrieb:
Thus J-barring=bass rider, and fan-barring=swan-necked lutes would be
a tendency, but the two sets may not be identical.
e.g. Wolfgang Emmerich who has made research on Railich, tells me
that Railich's later productions did have fan-barring. Yet these are
still rather early compared to Swannecked German lutes.
As a lute "amator" that would be one area that interests me, the
tonal colours that result from barring, wood choices, and lute shapes.
I have communciated with a number of lute makers on that topic, who
generally feel that it is difficult to make any exact predictions
about whether a particular feature results in a specific sound trait.
I regret that there is not more lute tastings, available, however,
You can read with Robert Lundberg
(http://www.luth.org/books/luteblrb.htm ) that J-bars served to brighten
the sound of dull-sounding gut bass strings of renaissance lutes (the
same goal as with octave strings) by breaking the fundamental.
As opposed to that, fan barring allows fundamentals to sound unbroken
which is what baroque lutes with their extended bass registers are
supposed to feature.
Playing a lute with a J-bar with overspun bass strings nullifies the
effect of the bar, of course.
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