On Sep 29, 2009, at 4:29 PM, luther maynard wrote: > My name is Luther... I have the same questions, why isn't there > a ready > to buy lute for under $1000 for the > > beginner that doesn't need work right out of the box,
because building a lute takes a lot of labor by a highly skilled artisan. If you're good enough to build a decent lute and have made molds and invested in lots of tools and workbenches and neato stuff like that, you don't want to do it for minimum wage. > I've been burned > with an Ebay lute, Pakistan made. See above. > If, I can find something that doesn't cost the price of a used > car.... This made me laugh. My theorbo is worth maybe 25 times what my 22- year-old Civic will fetch on the open market. > where do you purchase the tab. ? Depends on what you want. Start with the LSA website and cruise the links. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
