From what I can see of it, I think this lute looks great. Interestingly
enough, the bowl is wood and it's the top that is carbon fiber.
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From: "Bruno Fournier" <[email protected]>
To: "Mark Probert" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 10:59 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: : Cost of a lute?
I don't think you've understood the problem at hear.A It is not about
the material, and BTW carbon fiber lute was done as an experiment by
Charles Besnainou in France back in the 80's:A
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it's about craftsmanship and demand.A It takes a long time to make a
lute, and there is no demand....
A
Bruno
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Mark Probert <[2][email protected]>
wrote:
Morgan wrote:
mc> I wonder if you could relatively inexpensively construct a lute
(the bowl,
mc> at minimum) from carbon fiber (like some acoustic guitars) or
molded plastic
mc> (like an Ovation guitar), and what it would sound like?
mc>
I was wondering this exact thing myself, with more than a passing
interest (my brother-in-law is a materials scientist in the
carbon-fibre
/ fiberglass game, with manufacturing contacts all around SE Asia).
There are a number of open questions, such as mold costs, but the
biggest would be the soundboard. A That would need to be wood. A And
then
there is the look of the thing. A My other thought on doing a
instrument
like that would be to add a pickup and end-pin jack out of the box
(think: new market).
Now for the business case :) I figure the price point would need to
be
in the USD$600 - 800 range to make this a viable option, including
case.
.. mark
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