I get a consistent pleasant bray on all the frets, just using double frets. I assume, that if the bridge - neck relation on another lute would not allow it, using a little higher second fret in the pair would help. alexander r.
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 09:46:47 +0000 Martin Shepherd <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Anthony and All, > > This is a great mystery. I can see no possible interpretation of > Capirola's remarks other than the one you suggest - BUT I have tried it, > and it doesn't work! You can make some notes buzz some of the time, but > I cannot see how you could possibly set it up so that all notes buzzed, > and to roughly the same extent. If you really want a buzzing effect, > the obvious way to do it is to thread something between the strings just > in front of the bridge. > > Has anyone else tried it? > > Best wishes, > > Martin > > On 09/02/2011 13:31, Anthony Hind wrote: > > I find interesting your idea (which I recognize is just a passing > > suggestion, > > and not a theory) that this lute might have been set-up for a Capriola > > Bray-harp > > effect, by setting the string height and the frets in such a way as to > > intensionly cause the strings to buzz on the equal frets. It would be > > interesting to experiment such a set-up, to see what happens. > > > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
